The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
15
Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
46
According to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits Earth.
11
There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
13
The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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