Earth is a wonderful planet of the universe having necessary conditions for living life. It is the 3rd planet of the universe and only planet where life exists. Read some Mystery & Unknown Interesting Facts about Earth.
Mystery & Unknown Interesting Facts about Earth
- It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
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Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrons than the number of people on earth.
- There are more living organisms in a tea spoonful of soil than there are people on earth.
- There are about 7500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth approximately.
- Our galaxy probably contains at least 2 billion planets like Earth.
- The Earth’s most inner layer core is about as hot as the sun.
- Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states that is in form solid, liquid and vapours.
- The Earth lost 40% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, according to the WWF (World Wide-life fund).
- The Soviets drilled the world’s deepest hole into the earth for 14 years & it’s 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) deep.
- The highest place on Earth, and closest to space, is Mount Chimborazo in the Andes.
- There are no 24 hours in a day but the earth rotate on its axis in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds.
- There are about 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage.
- Krubera Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth, has depth of 2,197 m (7,208 ft).
- Only about .003 percent of the water on Earth can be used by humans.
- Oceans cover 71% of the Earth’s surface.
- You found ants almost every land mass on Earth except for Antarctica & a few remote or inhospitable Islands.
- 20% of the Earth’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rain forest.
- Between 10 and 20 volcanoes are erupting somewhere on Earth every day.
- In year 2011 earthquake near Japan increased the Earth’s rotation speed due to which the day shorten by 1.8 microseconds.
- Earth is the only known place where a fire can occur naturally.
These are some Mystery & Unknown Interesting Facts about Earth.
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