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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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