The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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According to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits Earth.
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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