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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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