The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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