According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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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 North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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According to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits Earth.
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