Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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