The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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 sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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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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