• The sun rays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.
• Water vs. Land: 70.8% Water, 29.2% Land.
• Earth is the only planet on which water can exist in liquid form on the surface.
• Chemical Composition of the Earth: 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulfur, and 0.05% Titanium.
• 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.
• The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system.
• Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.
• The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.
• In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.
• Shanghai, China is the largest city by population (13.3 million) in the world.
• English is the second most spoken language (Native speakers 512 million) & the first is Chinese Mandarin (more then 1 billion speakers).
• Atmosphere Content: 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and traces of argon, carbon dioxide and water.
• Revolution around Sun: 365.2425 day.
• The Nile River in Africa is the longest river (6,825 kilometers) of the earth.
• Earth's oceans are an average of 2 Miles deep.
• The gravity on Mars is 38% of that found on Earth. So a 100 pounds person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

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