The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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