The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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