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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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 and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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