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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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