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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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