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 car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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