The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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