Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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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 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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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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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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