There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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