facts verse presents ten strange things
you didn't know about earth number one
there are not 24 hours in a day ever
since you were in elementary school you
were taught that there are 24 hours in a
day well that's not technically true the
earth spins on its axis for 23 hours 56
minutes the reason we add an extra four
minutes is that the distance that the
Earth orbits the Sun is so great that it
takes extra time for us to face the Sun
again eventually the time will catch up
and the days will last longer than 24
hours that's because every few million
years the earth spins slower and slower
about 250 million years from now
a typical day will last 25.5 hours I'm
going to take a guess and say most of us
won't be around to see that number - a
glitch in the Earth's gravity Hudson Bay
is located in Canada this area has an
uneven mass when there is an uneven mass
there is an uneven gravity at one time
there were glaciers in this area today
they are melted however the burden of
gravity it still remains in ice sheets
under the Earth's crust this has caused
the gravity in Hudson Bay to be lower
than anywhere else on earth
if you're planning to visit Hudson Bay
don't think that you can bounce around
like you would on the moon the
difference in gravity in this area is
only about point zero zero five percent
this amount is so small you probably
won't be able to feel the reduction in
the gravity but the good news is if you
visit Hudson Bay you immediately weigh
less good news for those of us on a diet
number three how was the ocean salt
created everyone knows that there is
salt in the oceans of the earth however
many people don't know exactly how the
salt got there the salt actually comes
from the rocks on the shores of the
ocean rainwater is naturally acidic and
it causes the rocks to break down the
components are then distributed into the
water the water in the Earth's oceans is
so dense that if you were to evaporate
all of the water in the oceans the salt
would spread over the entire land 500
feet thick on absolutely everything
number four the earth had a twin there
is a theory that when the earth was
developing there was a smaller twin
planet nearby called Theia which was
about the size of Mars about five
billion years ago Thea crashed into
Earth and most of it was absorbed into
the Earth's crust the rest of the planet
drifted off and eventually became our
Moon now the reason that so many
scientists and astronomers believe this
theory is possible or even true is
because normally planets that are the
size of the earth don't have moons that
are so large also the moon and the earth
share various matters number five the
earth is hot many people believe that if
the Sun were to become permanently
blocked by the clouds or if it just
drifted away we would not receive its
heat and the human race would quickly
become extinct well that may not be the
case the Earth's core is just as hot as
the surface of the Sun it's between
5,000 and 7,000 degrees Celsius so as
something tragic word to happen to the
Sun and the land on the earth were to
freeze if we were able to harness the
energy from the Earth's core we could
keep the human race alive it would be
dark outside but at least we'd have Heat
number six unexplored oceans of the ten
strange things you didn't know about
Earth this fat Peaks the most curiosity
mankind has gone to space numerous times
we've even touched down on the moon
unless you're one of those conspiracy
theorists people well most of the earth
has been explored except for the ocean
as of now only about five to ten percent
of the ocean has been explored only five
to ten percent
we've only discovered about two hundred
and ten thousand underwater creatures
and it's estimated that there are
probably 20 million more that we've not
yet discovered that means that there
could be mermaids living deep in the
ocean we just don't know about
and possibly that Megalodon we all keep
hoping well eventually see ooh and
Cthulhu number seven there are exploding
lakes on earth there are three lakes in
Cameroon nyos ma noun and Kiva they're
located near the border of the Congo and
they're often known as the exploding
lakes in 1984 a group of local villagers
was walking to work on a small stretch
of road when a gas cloud appeared and
swallowed many of the villagers up and
carried them away of all the villagers
on the road 37 were killed instantly it
was discovered that the gas cloud was
carbon dioxide that was released when
the lakes exploded the reason they
exploded was that they were sitting on
volcanic earth and these lakes still
explode today number 8 the
supercontinent when dinosaurs roamed the
earth
there was a supercontinent called Pangea
it was a continent that joined all of
the countries of the world in one big
landmass in the next 250 million years
there will be another supercontinent
formed it will be called Pangaea Ultima
it will rejoin America and Africa and
Africa to Europe the center of the
supercontinent will be an arid desert
that will be prone to extreme weather
number 9 the earth isn't round now I'm
not saying the earth is flat for very
long time people thought the earth was
flat though explorers were worried about
falling off the face of the earth on
their ships while eventually it was
discovered that the earth was round but
not totally round it's not a perfect
circle there is a bulge in the equator
that stretches about 20 miles out this
bulge gives the earth a roundish shape
closer to that of an egg while you won't
fall off the earth it's still not
completely perfectly round number 10
there is gold under water at the bottom
of the Earth's oceans there are 20
million tons of gold the only reason
that nobody's attempted to get the gold
is that one liter of water contains just
thirteen billion of a gram of gold if it
were possible to get gold from the ocean
there would be enough for every person
on earth to get nine pounds of it good
luck on that ever happening now
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