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Our solar system once consisted of nine planets, the one farthest out being Pluto.

But in 2006, Pluto was reclassified a “dwarf planet” when leading scientists came up with some basic criteria for the planets in our solar system and Pluto didn’t make the cut.

And, Marie Antoinette really didn’t utter the phrase “let them eat cake” when the poorest citizens of France were enduring chaotic times in their country. Instead, a Spanish princess named Maria Theresa, who married Louis XIV more than a century before Marie Antoinette’s reign in France, most likely spoke that phrase.

You get the idea.