Some interesting facts about Earth

                                 

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Our home planet is the third planet from the Sun, and the only place we know of so far that’s inhabited by living things.While Earth is only the fifth largest planet in the solar system, it is the only world in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. Just slightly larger than nearby Venus, Earth is the biggest of thThe name Earth is at least 1,000 years old. All of the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. However, the name Earth is a Germanic word, which simply means “the ground.”e four planets closest to the Sun, all of which are made of rock and metal.

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EARTH 

• If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side.

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• The Earth's average global land and ocean surface temperature for September 2019 was 0.95°C (1.71°F) above the 20th century average.

• The Earth, seen from the moon, also goes through phases.

• It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth 

• There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people on earthOne-third of   Earth's land surface is partially or totally desert. 

• Before trees were common, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms.

• Our galaxy probably contains at least 2 billion planets like Earth.

• There are about 7500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth.

• The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
• Since at least the time of Pythagoras in 500 BC, no educated person believed the Earth was flatEvery second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.

• Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states: solid, liquid and vapour.

• Earth is the only place in the solar system where a total solar eclipse can happen. 

• The Soviets drilled the world's deepest hole into the earth for 14 years: it's 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) deep. 

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• Earth is the only planet whose name in English is not derived from a Greco-Roman God.

• The highest place on Earth, and closest to space, is Mount Chimborazo in the AndesThere are no 24 hours in a day. It has 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.