Mark's Extensive and Exhaustively Researched Gallery of Completely, Totally, and Utterly Useless Facts about The Earth Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mt Everest Most gemstones contain several elements. Except the diamond it's all carbon. The Pacific Ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the earth's surface. The Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes each year The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually. The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon If you
gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land,
(including the uninhabitable areas) everyone If all the ozone in the atmosphere were compressed to a pressure corresponding to that at the earth's surface, -the layer would be only 3mm thick The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons 11 Facts |