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 moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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