Interesting Facts of Earth

About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day. 1327 Ratings The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert. 759 Ratings Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour. 846 Ratings From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water. 816 Ratings Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world's population. 387 Ratings 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. 485 Ratings The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade. 586 Ratings The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles. 526 Ratings Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet. 421 Ratings 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. 539 Ratings The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed. 450 Ratings 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. 359 Ratings 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. 380 Ratings In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA. 293 Ratings Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). 281 Ratings About 540 volcanoes on land are known. No one knows how many undersea volcanoes have erupted through history. 320 Ratings Average 100 lightning strikes occur worldwide every second. 244 Ratings Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons. 294 Ratings Earth's atmosphere is actually about 80 percent nitrogen. Most of the rest is oxygen, with tiny amounts of other stuff thrown in. 287 Ratings A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above. 222 Ratings The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall (979 meters / 3212 ft.), three times the size of the Eiffel Tower. 188 Ratings 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. 329 Ratings 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. 229 Ratings Each winter there are about 1 septillion (1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 or a trillion trillion) snow crystals that drop from the sky. 263 Ratings The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters). 255 Ratings 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. 286 Ratings The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds. 208 Ratings The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby. 228 Ratings The gravity on Mars is 38% of that found on Earth. So a 100 pounds person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars. 236 Ratings The Arctic stays black and fiercely cold for months on end. In the High Arctic, the sun sets in October and does not rise again until late February. 189 Ratings The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887. 234 Ratings Earth's oceans are an average of 2 Miles deep 189 Ratings The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C). 218 Ratings Monaco is the Highest Density Country of the world, 16,205 people per square k.m. live in Monaco. 191 Ratings One-tenth of the Earth's surface is always under the cover of ice. And almost 90 per cent of that ice is to be found in the continent of Antarctica. 184 Ratings American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times. 144 Ratings The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on sea or land. Individuals can reach more than 110 feet and weigh nearly 200 tons, more than the weight of 50 adult elephants. 186 Ratings The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal. 179 Ratings The age of the earth is Loudly proclaimed by the scientific establishment of evolution believers and the mass media as being around 4.6 billion years old. 204 Ratings Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food. 201 Ratings 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. 175 Ratings The temperature of Earth increases about 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) for every kilometer (about 0.62 miles) you go down. 177 Ratings 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. 194 Ratings Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest continent on Earth. 192 Ratings The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark. 260 Ratings The Peregrine Falcon around 200mph (320 km/h) is the fastest bird on the planet, the top speed recorded is 242.3mph (390 km/h). 171 Ratings Life began in the seas 3.1 billion to 3.4 billion years ago. Land dwellers appeared 400 million years ago, a relatively recent point in the geologic time line. 203 Ratings Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile. 182 Ratings Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born/woman. Niger is 7.46 (highest), India is 2.73, US is 2.09 & Hong Kong is 0.95 only (Lowest). 163 Ratings The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system. 241 Ratings At least 1,000 million grams, or roughly 1,000 tons of material (dust) enters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to Earths surface. 157 Ratings The flower with the world's largest bloom is the Rafflesia arnoldii. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to be 3 feet across and weigh up to 15 pounds. 169 Ratings 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. 182 Ratings In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe. 146 Ratings Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.