Want to know things about Earth that will blow your mind? Keep reading to find out!
The hottest temperature to ever be recorded is 136 degrees Fahrenheit in the Libyan desert in the year 1922.
The Great Barrier Reef, made entirely of coral, stretches to a total area of 130,000 square miles. It is so big that a complete view of the reef can only be seen from space! Also, coral reefs are the largest living creatures on Earth!
If you stood at the equator of the Earth, you would weigh less than when you stand at a pole.
You could be moving at 1,000 miles per hour right now. (It depends on where you are standing; you would be flying through space the fastest is you were to stand exactly on the equator).
70% of Earth's fresh water and 90% of its ice is located at the Antarctic ice cap.
Our globe is not a perfect sphere. In fact, it has a waistline, meaning there is a larger circumference at the equator than anywhere else.
Because the globe is not a perfect sphere, gravity is not evenly distributed. Therefore, some areas have less gravity than others.
Lightning flashes about 6,000 times around the Earth every minute.
The bat is the world's smallest animal, specifically Kitti's hog-nosed bat. It weighs about 2 grams and is commonly referred to as the "bumblebee bat."
Earth orbits the sun at a speed of about 66,660 miles per hour!
