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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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 comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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