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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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 sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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