Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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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 has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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