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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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