The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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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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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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