Interesting Facts about Earth / World

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http://www.wonderfulinfo.com/facts/images/arctic_bear.jpg 01.The word "Arctic" comes from the ancient Greek Arktikos, or "country of the great bear." Though the Greeks had no knowledge of the polar bear, they named the region after the constellation Ursus Major, the Great Bear, found in the Northern Sky.

02.Groundwater comprises a 30 times greater volume than all freshwater lakes, and more than 3,000 times what's in the world's streams and rivers at any given time.

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03.About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day. :shocked:



04. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.:rolleyes:

05.Louisiana loses about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of land each year to coastal erosion, hurricanes, other natural and human causes and a thing called subsidence, which means sinking.

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06.The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.

07.Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.

08.The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.

09.In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA

10.From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water.

11.Each Wonder (in 7 wonders) has its own intrigue. Historian agree that the Pyramids stood the test of time, the Lighthouse is the only Wonder that has a practical secular use, and the Temple of Artemis was the most beautiful of all Wonders.

12. The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.

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13.The people who live on Tristan da Cunha are over 2,000km (about 1,300 miles) from their nearest neighbours on the island of St. Helena. That's nearly as far as Moscow is from London.

14.The deepest depth in the ocean is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Islands

15.The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system.


16.Earth's atmosphere is actually about 80 percent nitrogen. Most of the rest is oxygen, with tiny amounts of other stuff thrown in.

17.The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed.

18.Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world's population.

19.Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

20..Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).

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21..A 1960 Chilean earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recent times, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a fault more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) long.

22.Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.

23.The gravity on Mars is 38% of that found on Earth. So a 100 pounds person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

24.The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.

25.The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).

26.The water that falls on a single acre of land during one inch of rainfall, it would weigh 113 tons that is 226,000 pounds.

27.The deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep.

28.The lowest dry point on earth is the Dead Sea in the Middle East is about 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.

29.Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest continent on Earth.

30.The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.

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31.The Pacific Ocean has an average depth of 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers).

32.The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall (979 meters / 3212 ft.), three times the size of the Eiffel Tower.

33.Monaco is the Highest Density Country of the world, 16,205 people per square k.m. live in Monaco.

34.Average 100 lightning strikes occur worldwide every second.

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35.http://www.wonderfulinfo.com/facts/images/winslow_arizona.jpg The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep

Lloro, Colombia is the wettest place on Earth, averages 523.6 inches of rainfall a year, or more than 40 feet (13 meters). That's about 10 times more than fairly wet major cities in Europe or the United States.

English is the second most spoken language (Native speakers 512 million) & the first is Chinese Mandarin (more then 1 billion speakers).

The Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf are connected by the Hormuz Strait.

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.

Shanghai, China is the largest city by population (13.3 million) in the world.

Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe is the major lake (371,000 sq km) in the world.

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good one bro... TFS :)

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