The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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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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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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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