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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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