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 NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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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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