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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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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