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.
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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