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 sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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