The Wacky and Weird of Planet Earth

Here are some earthy facts to wow your friends:

• every day about 100 tons of interplanetary material fall down onto Earth’s surface primarily from the ice of comets as they vaporize near the Sun
• The Pacific Basin contains half of the free water on earth and could hold all of the world’s continents.
• Constructed from millions of tiny polyps coral reefs are the largest living structures on earth some even visible from space. they also contain the highest density of life on the planet even more than rainforests.
• the largest single living thing apart from reefs constructed of multiple polyps was a mushroom fungus in Oregon that grew up to cover 2.5 square miles
• The ocean holds nearly 20 million tons of gold. Granted most of the gold is diluted. Each liter of seawater contains about 13 billionths of a gram. There is enough undissolved gold on the seafloor though to put nine pounds in every persons pocket on earth.
• The most active volcano on earth is Stromboli volcano in southern Italy. For the past 2,000 years it’s been erupting almost continuously which has earned it the nickname lighthouse of the Mediterranean
• The longest mountain range on earth is actually underwater. It’s called the mid-ocean ridge system it stretches for 80 thousand kilometers all around the world and is nearly 20 times longer than the longest range on the surface which is the Andes

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