1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, an average-sized star.
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side.
The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.
The Earth, seen from the mo[/B]on, also goes through phases.
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
Before trees were common, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms.
There are about 7500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth.
The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
Since at least the time of Pythagoras in 500 BC, no educated person believed the Earth was flat.
Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states: solid, liquid and vapour.
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side.
The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.
The Earth, seen from the mo[/B]on, also goes through phases.
It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.
Before trees were common, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms.
There are about 7500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth.
The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
Since at least the time of Pythagoras in 500 BC, no educated person believed the Earth was flat.
Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its three states: solid, liquid and vapour.
