Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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