Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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