The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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