The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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