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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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 are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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