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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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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From the nitrogen in our DNA, to the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, to the carbon in our apple pies - all were made in the interiors of collapsing stars; we're all made of stardust.
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