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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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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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According to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits Earth.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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