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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
139
The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
14
Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
100
The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
147
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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