If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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