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 travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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