Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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