If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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