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 lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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