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	Fact	Category	Date
31	Sometimes Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune.	Science > Astronomy	05/09/10
32	Earth has a 23.5 degree tilt.	Science > Astronomy	05/09/10
33	Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter in 1994.	Science > Astronomy	11/19/10
34	The center of the Andromeda Galaxy is a supermassive black hole.	Science > Astronomy	12/01/10
35	Betelgeuse is also known as Alpha Orionis.	Science > Astronomy	06/13/11
36	Venus' axial tilt is 177.3 degrees, the reason for its seemingly retrograde rotation.	Science > Astronomy	11/08/11
37	Proxima Centauri is discovered in 1915.	Science > Astronomy	02/11/12
38	Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun.	Science > Astronomy	04/07/12
39	Long-period comets usually come from the Oort Cloud.	Science > Astronomy	08/27/12

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