| 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day. |
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| 97.2% of the Earth's water is salt water. |
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| A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon. |
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| All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator. |
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| All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why. |
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| An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards! |
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| Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans. |
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| Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. |
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| Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull. |
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| Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second. |
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| Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable. |
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| Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards. |
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| Earth has more exposed water than land. Three quarters of the Earth is covered by water. |
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| Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth. |
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| Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes. |
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| Florida has more tornados per square mile than any other state. |
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| It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth. |
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| It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world. |
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| Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet! |
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| Living organisms on Earth can thrive as deep as 2 miles down. |
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| Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. |
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| The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. |
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| The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon. |
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| The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September. |
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| The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)! |
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| The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons. |
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| The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950. |
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| The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down. |
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