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Description: 1. Queen of the Planet. Planet Earth has a surface area of around 510 million square kilometers, only around 30% of the entire Earth's surface is land, and one-sixth of that land is legally owned by the Queen of England! 2. Iron Core. The Earth's Core is believed to be composed of two layers, the outer layer is believed to be liquid and the inner layer, solid, and both, although the exact percentages are unknown, are believed to be mainly composed of Iron and Nickel and about the same temperature as the surface of the sun, 5500 degrees centigrade! (9900 F). 3. The Earth is Slowing Down. The tides are created by the gravitational effect the moon has on our planet, this effect is greatest when the moon, the Earth, and the Sun are aligned. This pull, on either side of the planet, doesn't just affect the oceans but also stretches the earth itself and affects the Earth's kinetic momentum, actually slowing down the Earths rotation, even if very minimally, about 17 milliseconds every 100 years, even so, in about 140 million years the days will be 25 hours long. 4. Radiator The Earth generates as much as 40 Terawatts of heat, half of that comes from the radioactive decay of elements like Thorium, Potassium, and Uranium within the Earth's core. The internal heat that keeps Planet Earth warm and vibrant comes from a giant natural nuclear reactor within its core, king of like a massive nuclear power plant and we're all just sitting on top of it. 5. Planet, Earth? Unlike all the other planets that have been named after Roman or Greek gods and have historical data about which person or group named them, Planet Earth remains a mystery. No one knows who named Planet Earth, "Earth" or when it was named or why. 6. H2 oh! 70% of the Earth's surface is water, only 3% of that 70% is fresh water and of that, two-thirds is trapped in ice sheets and glaciers. The majority of the remaining 1% is actually trapped in lakes and reservoirs. If you were to take all the water in all the clouds in our skies at any one time and spread it over the surface of the planet it would reach a depth no thicker than a human hair. 7. Down Under and Up and Over. We all know that the Earth's tectonic plates are always shifting but Australia's is moving so fast that GPS and Maps have to be updated regularly. From 1994 to 2016 it moved almost 1.5m! (5ft). Scientists estimate that in 50 million years it will impact southeast Asia and in around 250 million years all the individual continents will go back to being one single supercontinent. 8. Too Hot To Handle. The Earth's core is about 3000 km below our feet (1864 miles), a distance shorter than the length of the highway known as "The Mother Road", Route 66. However, we could actualy never travel to the Earth's core, even if we had the technology necessary to bore down to it, by the time we'd traveled a thousandth of the way, just 3km (1.8 miles) the temperature would be too high for us to bear. 9 Earthquakes can be felt on the other side of the Planet. In 2013, a magnitude 8 Earthquake occurred 400 miles below the Kuril Islands and people in Australia felt it! The largest earthquake ever recorded was a 9.5 magnitude and it happened in Chile in 1960 from a fault longer than the state of California, a Magnitude 13 earthquake would require a fault bigger than the Earth itself so a magnitude 12 would literally split the world in two. 10. Germaphobes Beware! Scientists estimate that on Planet Earth there are approximately one Nonillion viruses, to put that into perspective, one quadrillion is a million billions and a nonillion is a quadrillion quadrillions, that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000! If you were to share all the viruses out between every star in the universe, each star would have 100 million! Would you like to see more crazy facts? comment below! Get more Tips here! destinationtips.com