Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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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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Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is about equal to the total biomass of all the people.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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