According to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits Earth.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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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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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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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 earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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