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 moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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