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Most distant image of Earth, taken by NASA's Voyager 1 from out past Pluto
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At the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, after the death of Austrian rookie Roland Ratzenberger during qualifying, Ayrton Senna hid an Austrian flag in his car, intending to raise it in honour of Ratzenberger after the race. The flag was found after Senna hit a wall at 145 mph, killing him.
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A black hole has just been discovered in the Milky Way and it is 33 times more massive than the Sun. It is extremely close to Earth. It is the most massive known black hole in our galaxy, formed during the collapse of a star.
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Police mug shots…Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin & Kurt Cobain


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17 April 2012. Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) atop NASA 905, a Boeing 747-100 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, arrived at Dulles International Airport for display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Centre of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum.
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Peter Isaacson AM DFC AFC DFM, flying a Lancaster Bomber under the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1943.

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