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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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