If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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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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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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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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