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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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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