Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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