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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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