If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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 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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