Did You Know? -- Facts

Facts about the Earth

- 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun.

- The queen of the UK is the legal owner of 1/6 of the Earth's land surface.

- The Earth, seen from the moon, also goes through phases.

- It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for the light to travel from the Sun to Earth

- There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people on Earth.

- Before trees were common, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms.

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

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

- The Earth's core is about as hot as the Sun.

- Lighting strikes Earth about 100 times per second or 8.6 million per day.

- The Earth lost 40% of its wildlife in past 40 years, according to the WWF.

- The Earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State buildings end to end.

- The soviets drilled the world's deepest hole into the Earth for 14 years. It's 12,262 meters ( 40,230 ft ) deep.

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

- There are about 22,000 manmade objects orbiting around planet Earth.

- 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.

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

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

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

- 40% of the Earth's land is in 6 countries.

- If the Earth didn't have the moon, our days would only be 6 hours long

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

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