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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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