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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. Antarctica is the coldest,windiest, highest and driest continent on Earth

22. There are no 24 hours in a day. It has 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.

21. There are about 22,000 man made objects orbiting around planet Earth.

20. The highest place on Earth, and closest to space, is Mount Chimborazo in the Andes

19. Earth is the only planet whose name in English is not derived from a Greco-RomanGod.
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18. Water constitutes only 0.07% of the earth by mass or0.4% of the earth by volume.

17. The Soviets drilled the world's deepest hole into the earth for 14 years: it's12,262 metres (40,230 ft) deep.

16. Earth is the only place in the solar system where a total solar eclipse can happen.

15. The earth's deepest known point equals to24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end.

14. The Earth lost 40% of its wild life in the past40 years, according to the WWF

13. Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states: solid, liquid and vapour

12. Since at least the time of Pythagoras in500 BC, no educated person believed theEarth was flat

11. Lightning
strikes Earth about
100 times per second
or 8.6 Million times per day.

10. The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.

9. There are about 7500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth.

8. Our galaxy probably contains at least 2 billion planets like Earth.