Counter-Intuitive Science

Yes. Like my favorite scale model of the Solar System, where the sun is a beach ball and the Earth is a BB 125 feet away. Sirius is another beach ball 7000(?) miles away, and you and I are as tall as hydrogen molecules.

Though I saw a screenshot off facebook the other day where the poster said that all life on Earth would bake if we orbited ten feet closer to the sun.....

And in a slightly more science-y incarnation, I was told by an educated chemical salesman that his pastor had told the congregation that the Earth was Very Special because it has the most perfectly circular orbit of any planet in our Solar System, Praise Be!Except it doesn't, as 20 seconds' Googling will tell you. But my salesman didn't Google it and really, really didn't want to believe me when I told him "not so." So half the Baptists in Abilene likely still think our orbit is less eccentric than Venus's or Neptune's. The other half probably were asleep for that part of the sermon.