The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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