The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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