earth, n.Trivia

Earth is so far from the sun that if it were a pin head and the sun were a soccer ball on the goal line of a football field, it would be 26 yards away

The Moon is slowly escaping Earth.

Earth is hit by about 8 million lightning strikes every day.

A hole through the middle of the earth would take 42 minutes to fall through.

Earth travels about 2.5 million kilometers around the Sun every day.

The Planets "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles"Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

Thanks to the ISS, Nov. 2, 2000 was the last time all living humans were on earth at the same time.

Earth is going to die one day --- In 2.3 billion years it will be too hot for life to exist on Earth

Earth is relatively flat --- if it were shrunk to the size of a billiard ball, even the biggest mountains would appear totally smooth

The earth is tiny --- if it were a grain of sand, the sun would be the size of a grapefruit

Walking around the world is possible --- It took the first man to do so four years, three months and 16 days.

Earth is about 4.54 billion years old.

Earth once had two moons.

Earth's average diameter is about 8,000 miles.

As passengers on Earth, we're all moving around the sun at an average speed of 67,000 miles per hour.

Earth behaves like a giant magnet.

Earth is tiny --- if it were the size of a golf ball, the sun would be the size of a mid-size house

Earth is the only known planet with plate tectonics

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

The Boring Billionrefers to a period of roughly a billion years when the only life on Earth was a dense layer of slime