FACTS ABOUT PLANET EARTH

THE EARTH ISN'T ROUND. CENTRIFUGAL FORCE PUSHES

OUTWARDS AT EARTH'S EQUATOR GIVING IT A

SLIGHT WASTELINE.

STANDING ON THE EQUATOR YOU WOULD BE

SPINNING AROUND EARTH'S CENTRE AT 1000 MILES PER HOUR.

AT THE POLES, HOWEVER, YOU WOULD BE STANDING STILL

(AND TURNING IN A CIRCLE)

YOU WOULD STILL BE HURLING THROUGH SPACE AT

67000 MILES PER HOUR THOUGH

THE ROCKS YOU ARE STANDING ON GET RECYCLED.

VOLCANOES SPIT THEM OUT AS MAGMA, THEY DRY,

HARDEN, AND AFTER A VERY LONG TIME EITHER GET

SUCKED DOWN AGAIN BY PLATE TECTONICS OR GET

PUSHED TOWARDS EARTH'S CORE BY A FRESH

LAYER OF ROCKS ABOVE.

SPEAKING OF MAGMA, THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE

EVER RECORDED ON EARTH'S SURFACE WAS 136

DEGREES F OR 57.8 DEGREES C IN EL AZIZIA,

LIBYA RECORDED IN 1922.

THE COLDEST SPOT WAS ANTARCTICA'S VOSTOK STATION

THAT RECORDED A BONECHILLING MINUS 128.6 DEGREES

FAHRENHEIT (MINUS 89.2 DEGREES C)

ON THAT NOTE, ANTARCTICA CONTAINS ABOUT 70 PERCENT OF

EARTH'S FRESH WATER AND 90 PERCENT OF ITS ICE

Gravity is not distributed equally. Yes, you read that right.

Places like Hudson Bay in Canada actually have less gravity

than other regions of the globe. This is due to the fact that there

is less land mass in that part of the planet, thanks both to

retreating glaciers on the surface and swirling magma deep

in the core.

EARTH'S MAGNETIC NORTH POLE IS MOVING NORTHWARD

AT A RATE OF 10 MILES PER YEAR