The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer 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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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