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"FACT'S ABOUT EARTH"
Earth is our home planet, is a world unlike any other. It is a third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life.
With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system, and it's the only one to have liquid water on its surface. Earth is also unique in terms of monikers.
Every other solar system planet was named for a Greek or Roman deity, but for at least a thousand years, some cultures have described our world using the Germanic word "EARTH" which means simply "the ground".
Earth orbits the sun once every 365.25 days. Since our calendar years have only 365 days, we add an extra leap day every four years to account for the difference.
Earth zooms through its orbit at an average velocity of 18.5 miles a second, we can't feel it. During this circuit, our planet is an average of 93 million miles away from the sun, a distance that lights about eight-minute to traverse.
5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EARTH:
- The Earth's Atmosphere extends to a distance of 10,000 km.
- Earth doesn't take 24 hours to rotate on its Axis.
- Earth is mostly iron, oxygen, and silicon.
- Plate Tectonics Keep the planet comfortable.
- Not only does Earth zoom through space, but it also spins on its axis.
3 FUNNY FACTS ABOUT EARTH:
01. Earth is 4.5 million years old.
02. Life on Earth started 3.5 million years ago.
03. On the moon your weight is 61 lbs less than your weight on earth.
AMAZING SCIENTIFIC FACT'S:
Scientists predict that there are over 3 billion base pairs of DNA in human genes and over 25,000 genes in the human genome. An entire copy of that genome exists in each of the 10 trillion cells in the human body. If all of that DNA were lined up, it would cover the distance between Earth and the sun 100 times.
7 AMAZING FACTS:
01. Babies have around 100 more bones than adults.
02. 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.
03. A flea can accelerate faster than the space shuttle.
04. Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.
05. The Eiffel tower can be 15 cm taller during summer.
06. Chalk is made from trillions of microscopic plankton fossils.
07. It takes 8 minutes, 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the Earth.
2 MIND-BLOWING SCIENCE FACTS:
- Lungs do more than help us breathe and a surprising discovery has found they also make blood. The organ, present in mammals, is believed to produce more than 10 million platelets per hour.
- Great apes (chimpanzees and orangutans) have absolutely no appreciation of music whatever. Research has shown they can't tell the difference between Beethoven and Bieber, and that music is all just meaningless sound to them.
WEATHER:
07 INCREDIBLE FACTS ABOUT WEATHER:
01. Some tornadoes can be faster than formula one cars!
02. The US gets over 1200 tornadoes a year.
03. The fastest recorded raindrop was 18 mph!
04. Lightning can, in fact, strike twice.
05. There are 2000 thunderstorms on Earth every minute.
06. There are ice caves in Iceland that have hot springs.
07. Rain contains vitamin B12.
05 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT THE WEATHER!
- You can tell the temperature by counting a cricket's chirps!
- Dirt mixed with wind can make dust storms called black blizzards.
- The coldest temperature ever officially recorded was -89.9 degrees C
- A mudslide can carry rocks, trees, vehicles, and entire buildings!
- Sandstorms can swallow up entire cities.
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