Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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