Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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