Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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