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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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