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Interesting Facts About Earth

Stop by here if you are looking for some interesting facts about Earth. Some of these are quite interesting while others border the thin line between strange and bizarre. Read on to know more.

Our planet is truly very interesting, indeed. While 70% of the planet is covered with water, the most advanced life form on Earth is found on its land mass. That life form is responsible for the life threatening damage, it does to the existence of life on Earth itself. Any guesses on who I’m taking about? Yes, it’s us, the mighty bipedal animals that rule this kingdom and slowly dragging it to ruin. Anyway, take a look at some facts that truly make this blue planet unique. Read more on earth science.

Interesting Facts About Earth, the Planet

• Earth is the only planet in the solar system with plate tectonics. That means that while the core is liquid the crust floats on the core of the planet.
• Around 47% of the Earth’s crust consists of oxygen.
• Earth is a big magnet, with poles at the top and bottom of the planet.
• It takes the Earth 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds to rotate on its axis. That means a day is not exactly 24 hours.
• A year on Earth is 365.2564 days and not 365 days. The extra .2564 days is why leap years were created.
• Earth is the only planet in the Solar System to have water in all three states of matter: (solid) ice, (liquid) sea, rain, etc. and (gas) clouds.
• It is believed that millions of years ago, a day on Earth was approximately 20 hours long, so after a million years, a day on Earth will be 27 hours long.
• The Earth will appear as the brightest of the 8 planets, if viewed from a specific distance in space. This is because the water bodies on Earth reflect large amount of sunlight.

These were some facts about the planet, let’s take a look at what truly makes this planet special. Before that you may want to take a look at planet Earth facts.

Odd Facts About Earth, the Planet

• El Azizia (Libya) is the hottest place on Earth, and Vostok (Antarctica) is the coldest.
• Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
• Venice in Italy is gradually sinking in the water. It is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges.
• A California bristlecone pine name ‘Methuselah’ is the oldest living tree. It is almost 4600 years old.
• The Antarctic Notothenia fish can’t freeze in the icy waters of its habitat as it has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and prevents freezing.
• Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The surviving embryo of the shark is born.
• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, is the name for a hill, 305 meters (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand. It is the longest officially recognized name of a place, the name has 85 letters.
• There is one chicken for every human being on earth.
• Humans grow by about 0.3 inches every night in sleep, but shrink back to normal during the day.
• Bones are five times stronger than steel.

So these were some other small facts about Earth or rather life on Earth. Some of these aren’t odd but apparently if you ate too many carrots, you’d turn orange. Now, I’m not making this up, I actually came across this when I was surfing the internet! I don’t think it’s true though. I guess one will have to eat a whole lot of carrots! You can take a look some more interesting facts here,

• Amazing Facts About Earth
• Facts About the Moon
• Amazing Facts About the Universe

The Earth is the only planet with life on it. No surprise there! Everyone knows that yet for every hundredth human who thinks that it’s not their responsibility to care for this fragile planet, there are only a handful of those who spend their time and energy conserving this beautiful world. To conclude, I hope that one day when someone else from another planet is writing on interesting facts about Earth, they don’t mention this. “Earth the only planet with life in the milky way. The most progressive life form of which were the Humans, who ironically brought about extinction on the blue planet.”