Did you know? You can simply lose weight without doing anything just by standing on the Equator.
Interesting, isn’t it? Our mother, Earth, is not only a beautiful and best planet to live in but also a planet filled with many awesome facts that you should know.
Fun Facts about Earth
1. Our host star, Sun, is so massive that it can fit 1.3 million Planet Earths inside it.
2. However, according to scientists, Our Sun is an ordinary star, just one among hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
3. Moreover, 63 Planet Earths can fit inside Uranus 🙂
4. A complete revolution around the Sun takes around 365 days and six hours, which is why we have a leap day every four years to make up for this discrepancy.
5. It takes around 8 minutes and 19 seconds for the light from Sun to reach our planet.
Surprising Facts about Earth
6. Earth happens to be the only planet in our solar system not named after a God, as the other seven planets in our solar system are all named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses.
7. The term Earth comes from Old English and High Germanic and is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god. However, Unlike other planets, no real historical data can be found on the person (or group) that named our planet “Earth.”
8. Roughly 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by the oceans. But, we were only able to explore 5% of the oceans.
9. The Gargantuan blue whale is the largest animal that has ever inhabited Earth. Yeah, they’re bigger than dinosaurs!
10. Wanna lose weight quickly without any exercise at all, then simply stand on the equator. By doing such so, you will be slightly half a percent less. It’s not much. But hey, every little helps.
Insane Facts about Earth
11. Around 300 million years ago, all of the Earth’s landmasses were joined together as one huge supercontinent called Pangea. As such there was also one giant ocean called Panthalassa.
12. Around 280 to 230 million years ago, Pangaea got divided into two smaller supercontinents known as Gondwana and Larysa. These two enormous landmasses move and split even further until we eventually ended up with the continents, we have today.
As a matter of fact, the continents never stopped moving and are still doing. So even today they’re just doing the same thing but at an incredibly slow pace.
13. As of April 2022, The population of Earth is over 7.9 billion.
14. However, 59.76% of Earth’s population lives in Asia.
15. If you drilled all the whole way through the Earth from one side to the other, and jump through it, it would take you around 42 minutes of free-falling to get to the other side.
Mind-Blowing Facts about Earth
16. Researchers calculate the age of the Earth by dating both the oldest rocks on the planet and meteorites that have been discovered on Earth and discovered that Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, according to the National Center for Science Education.
17. The fiery award for Earth’s hottest spot goes to El Azizia, Libya, where temperature records from weather stations reveal it hit 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 degrees Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922.
18. Approximately 500 thousand earthquakes are detected around the world every year.
However, Out of these, only 100 can actually be felt by humans.
19. The devastating 2011 earthquake near Japan, which was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded, was so massive that it increased the speed of the Earth’s rotation and shortened the day by 1.8 microseconds.
Read more: 25 Mind-Blowing facts about Japan that will strike you like thunder
20. There are approximately 6,000 lightning strikes around the globe every single minute.
Cool Facts about Earth
21. Literally, 80% of all animal species on planet Earth have six or more legs.
22. According to the WWF, Earth has lost 40% of its wildlife in the past 40 years mainly due to human activity.
23. The Amazon forest is located in South America and mostly within Brazil is so large that it makes up more than half of the Earth’s rainforests.
24. The Amazon is often called the lungs of the world, as it produces roughly 20% of the Earth’s oxygen.
25. Days on Earth are increasing. Yup, they’re getting longer. At its inception 4.54 billion years ago, a day on Earth would have registered as six hours long. Nowadays, we all know that a day lasts 24 hours, but that’s ever-changing. As a matter of fact, the days increase by 1.7 milliseconds every century.
That’s it for this post guys, I hope you had fun while reading about 25 Mind-Blowing facts about Earth that everyone must know.
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