A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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 'snows' metal on Venus.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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