Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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