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24. As passengers on Earth, we are all carried around the sun at a mean velocity of 66,600 mph(107,182 km/h).

25. Between100 and 300 tons of cosmic dust enter the Earth's atmosphere every day.

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

27. There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.

28. Krubera Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth, has depth of 2,197 m (7,208 ft)

29. The southern most active volcano on Earthis inAntarctica. It spews crystals and is very close to the U.S. Research Center.

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

31. Large parts of Canada have less gravity than the rest of Earth. The phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s.

32. The year 2015 will be one second longer than usual because of the slowing of the Earth's rotation.

33. Earth days are getting longer by 1.7 milliseconds every century.

34. If the earth didn't have the moon, our days would only be 6 hours long.

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.

36. Only about .003 percent of the water on Earth can be used by humans.

37. Rain has never been recorded in parts ofChile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.

38. For every grain of sand on every beach on Earth, there are 10,000 stars in the universe.

39. The farthest distance from Earth anastronauth as ever traveled was during the Apollo 13 emergency

40. Oceans cover71%of the Earth's surface.

so our time is now going to slow than a bit?, oh. make i reduce my level of hustling nah

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.

41. Ants havecolonised almost every landmass on Earth except for Antarctica and a few remote or inhospitable islands.

42. 63 Earths can fit inside Uranus.

I dey enjoy ur facts.

43. The coldest place on Earth is a high ridge in Antarctica where temperatures can dip below-133°F (-93.2°C)

XavierBlue:
40. Oceans cover71%of the Earth's surface.

Everybody knows this.

44. 20% of the Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.

45. The Earth's magnetic field has been steadily weakening over the past 180 years, specially around Brazil and Argentina.

46. Between 10 and 20 volcanoes are erupting somewhere on Earthevery day.

47. Global warming has raised the earth's average surface temperature about1.5°F (0.8°C)since the Industrial Revolution.

48. The Amazon
represents more than
half of the Earth's
rainforests.

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.

50. Fossil evidence suggests that fish have been on Earth for about 530 million years.

51.. There's an ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans: they are 30% more acidic than in 1751.