The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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