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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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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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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 earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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