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 is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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