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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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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