FUNNY FACTS ABOUT EARTH

Day 1,562, 07:41 • Published in Ireland South Africa • by Domagoj 93




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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.

97.2% of the Earth's water is salt water.

A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.

All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.

All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!







Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.

Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.

The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.