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 sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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 earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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