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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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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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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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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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