Amazing facts about Earth


The three most common elements in the universe are 1) hydrogen; 2) helium; 3) oxygen.

 
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Eris (dwarf planet) is the most recently discovered planets in 2005.

 

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The town of Tidikelt in the Shara Desert once went ten years without rainfall.
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The water in the Great Salt Lake of Utah is more than four times as salty as any ocean.
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The wettest spot in the world is located on the island of Kauai . Mt. Waialeale consistently records rainfall at the rate of nearly 500 inches per year.

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The Willamette River in Oregon is the only river on earth that flows it's entire distance north.
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

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One square mile of land contains more insects than total number of human beings on earth.
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The record for the biggest one day rainfall was set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on March 15, 1952, where 74 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
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The red sea is not red.
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The river Danube empties into the Black Sea.

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The Sahara Desert expands at a rate of about 1 km each month.

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The Sahara desert is larger as Europe and large then the combined areas of next largest 9 deserts.
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The Sahara Desert is over twice as big as the second largest desert in the world, The Australian Desert. The Sahara is 3.5 million square miles compared to the 1.47 million square miles of the Australian. This is "true" in the generic sense of the Australian Desert. There is no Australian Desert. It is divided into many different deserts. What would be true would be to say the Sahara is bigger than the desert space in Australia (which is A LOT not sure how much as a percentage of the total land mass of Australia).
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The Sea of tranquility is found on the moon.
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