The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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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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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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