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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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