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 earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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