There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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