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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:44am On Jun 24, 2015
24. As passengers on Earth, we are all carried around the sun at a mean velocity of 66,600 mph(107,182 km/h).

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:45am On Jun 24, 2015
25. Between100 and 300 tons of cosmic dust enter the Earth's atmosphere every day.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:47am On Jun 24, 2015
26. There are about 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and100 of them cause damage

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:49am On Jun 24, 2015
27. There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.

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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:50am On Jun 24, 2015
28. Krubera Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth, has depth of 2,197 m (7,208 ft)

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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:52am On Jun 24, 2015
29. The southern most active volcano on Earthis inAntarctica. It spews crystals and is very close to the U.S. Research Center.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:54am On Jun 24, 2015
30. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be ass mall as a pea

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:55am On Jun 24, 2015
31. Large parts of Canada have less gravity than the rest of Earth. The phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:56am On Jun 24, 2015
32. The year 2015 will be one second longer than usual because of the slowing of the Earth's rotation.

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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:57am On Jun 24, 2015
33. Earth days are getting longer by 1.7 milliseconds every century.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 10:58am On Jun 24, 2015
34. If the earth didn't have the moon, our days would only be 6 hours long.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:00am On Jun 24, 2015
35. All of the world's energy needs can be met with 1/10,000th of the light from the Sun that falls on Earth each day, according to the inventor Ray Kurzweil.

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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:02am On Jun 24, 2015
36. Only about .003 percent of the water on Earth can be used by humans.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:04am On Jun 24, 2015
37. Rain has never been recorded in parts ofChile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:04am On Jun 24, 2015
38. For every grain of sand on every beach on Earth, there are 10,000 stars in the universe.

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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:06am On Jun 24, 2015
39. The farthest distance from Earth anastronauth as ever traveled was during the Apollo 13 emergency

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:07am On Jun 24, 2015
40. Oceans cover71%of the Earth's surface.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by okeke00(m): 11:08am On Jun 24, 2015
so our time is now going to slow than a bit?, oh. make i reduce my level of hustling nah

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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by Nobody: 11:08am On Jun 24, 2015
XavierBlue:
17. The Soviets drilled the world's deepest hole into the earth for 14 years: it's12,262 metres (40,230 ft) deep.

They are destroying the earth.
Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:09am On Jun 24, 2015
41. Ants havecolonised almost every landmass on Earth except for Antarctica and a few remote or inhospitable islands.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:10am On Jun 24, 2015
42. 63 Earths can fit inside Uranus.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by Olofintoto(m): 11:11am On Jun 24, 2015
I dey enjoy ur facts.
Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:12am On Jun 24, 2015
43. The coldest place on Earth is a high ridge in Antarctica where temperatures can dip below-133°F (-93.2°C)

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by Olofintoto(m): 11:12am On Jun 24, 2015
XavierBlue:
40. Oceans cover71%of the Earth's surface.
Everybody knows this.
Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:18am On Jun 24, 2015
44. 20% of the Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.

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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:20am On Jun 24, 2015
45. The Earth's magnetic field has been steadily weakening over the past 180 years, specially around Brazil and Argentina.

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Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:21am On Jun 24, 2015
46. Between 10 and 20 volcanoes are erupting somewhere on Earthevery day.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:23am On Jun 24, 2015
47. Global warming has raised the earth's average surface temperature about1.5°F (0.8°C)since the Industrial Revolution.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:25am On Jun 24, 2015
48. The Amazon
represents more than
half of the Earth's
rainforests.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:28am On Jun 24, 2015
49. If Earth's history were condensed into24 hours, life would've appeared at 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm and human history would've began at11:58:43pm.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:29am On Jun 24, 2015
50. Fossil evidence suggests that fish have been on Earth for about 530 million years.

Re: 57 Great Fact About Earth You Dont Know by XavierBlue(m): 11:37am On Jun 24, 2015
51.. There's an ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans: they are 30% more acidic than in 1751.

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