All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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 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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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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