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    "headline": "The solar system, and somewhat beyond",
    "dek": "Three stories from the space desk's first fortnight, from the Moon outwards.",
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        "type": "text",
        "text": "The space desk filed three stories in the paper's first two weeks, each quoting a different source and each a little further from Earth. None of the three sources exists."
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        "type": "text",
        "text": "The first concerned the Moon, and quoted the Lunar Variance Bureau."
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        "quote": "Fake fact (not true): The Moon is about four per cent smaller on Tuesdays."
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        "text": "The next went out as far as Saturn."
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        "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Saturn's rings are made mostly of lost car keys."
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        "text": "The third left the solar system altogether."
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        "id": "black-holes-undecided-things",
        "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Black holes are where the universe keeps things it has not decided what to do with yet."
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        "type": "text",
        "text": "They are collected here in the order they were printed, nearest first."
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        "details": "Nobody knows why. Astronomers schedule their important lunar measurements for Thursdays, when it is back to full size, and try not to talk about it.",
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        "details": "Keys dropped down the back of sofas drift outward over millions of years until Saturn catches them. Jupiter collects the single socks.",
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        "details": "Astronomers expect it to get round to sorting through them in about ten billion years. Until then, nothing is allowed back out in case it gets lost again.",
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