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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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