Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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