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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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