If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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