Ours is the fifth-largest planet in our solar system. Only Mars, Venus, and Mercury are smaller.
The Earth travels around the Sun at 67,000 miles an hour.
The Earth does not sit perfectly upright, but is tilted at an angle of around 23 degrees. It is this tilt that points different parts of the Earth slightly closer to the Sun as we travel around it, giving us our seasons.
The Earth’s diameter, going straight through the middle, is around 7900 miles.
The Earth’s longest mountain range can be located underwater. The so-called Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an enormous chain of submarine mountains that runs down the middle of almost the entire Atlantic Ocean.
Because a desert is officially defined as an area that receives little to no precipitation, the world’s largest desert is actually Antarctica, not the Sahara.
There are 300 cubic million miles of water in the Earth’s oceans.
THE IRGC IN IRAN WILL HAVE TO BE DESTROYED. HATE, TORTURE, AND BRUTALITY ARE THE ONLY JOBS THEY KNOW. THEY ARE LIKE THE 10,000 HAMAS STILL IN GAZA. THEIR WORD IS GOOD AS LONG AS A CARRIER STRIKE FORCE IS NEARBY. Why aren’t the gunboats being destroyed ?
The native Australians traveled so far in ancient times that Malagasy, the native language of Madagascar, is more closely related to the languages of Indonesia than mainland Africa.
Maltese, the language spoken in the tiny Mediterranean country of Malta, is descended from historical Arabic, but is written in the Latin alphabet.
The different varieties of Arabic are so different from one another that speakers in different Arabic-speaking countries would struggle to communicate with one another.
Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, meanwhile are so similar to one another that the three can almost be used interchangeably. According to some estimates, 80% of Danish and Norwegian, in particular, are said to be mutually intelligible.
The Turkish language used to be written using the Arabic alphabet, but in 1928 the language switched over to the ABC’s of the Roman alphabet and has been written that way ever since.
In 2011, the Busuu language of Cameroon in West Africa was spoken fluently by just eight people.