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 sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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