According to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits Earth.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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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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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is about equal to the total biomass of all the people.
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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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