A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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