{"id":903,"date":"2022-08-20T07:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T07:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curiositykilledthecat.co.za\/?p=903"},"modified":"2022-08-20T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T07:40:33","slug":"facts-you-didnt-know-about-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curiositykilledthecat.co.za\/es\/2022\/08\/20\/facts-you-didnt-know-about-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts you didn&#8217;t know about the Earth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Hello fellow space lover, today we are continuing the educational journey through the solar system. The last planet we did was Venus (<a href=\"https:\/\/curiositykilledthecat.co.za\/es\/2021\/11\/14\/interesting-facts-about-venus\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/curiositykilledthecat.co.za\/2021\/11\/14\/interesting-facts-about-venus\/\">https:\/\/curiositykilledthecat.co.za\/2021\/11\/14\/interesting-facts-about-venus\/<\/a>), so naturally our next destination is Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Days get longer<\/strong> by 1.7 milliseconds every century because the moon is slowing down the Earth&#8217;s rotation.<\/li><li> The average day lasted<strong> 6 hours<\/strong> 4.6 billion years ago.<\/li><li>Earth is a <strong>terrestrial<\/strong> planet (mostly composed of metals) like Mercury, Venus and Mars.<\/li><li>When the Earth&#8217;s continents were together this was called Rodinia.  <\/li><li>Earth&#8217;s <strong>gravity is not uniform<\/strong> because of the tectonic plate&#8217;s movements.<\/li><li>The Earth experiences a <strong>pole reversal<\/strong> every 200 000-300 000 years, however, 2012 marked double the time since the last pole reversal. <\/li><li>There are <strong>two asteroids<\/strong> that appear to be following Earth but they are simply orbiting the sun.<\/li><li>The Earth has <strong>three crater lakes<\/strong> located in Rhonda, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo; they emit carbon dioxide that can be released as an explosive.<\/li><li>The <strong>most active volcano<\/strong> on Earth is the Stromboli Volcano in Italy. <\/li><li>The <strong>driest place<\/strong> on Earth is the Atacama desert in Chile, ironically it is situated next to the biggest body of water.<\/li><li>The <strong>hottest day<\/strong> recorded was the 10 July 1913 with an air temperature of 56,7 degrees Celsius in Death Valley, United States of America. <\/li><li>The<strong> coldest day <\/strong>officially recorded was -89,2 degrees Celsius on 21 July 1983 in Antarctica.<\/li><li>The Greenland shark is the <strong>oldest shark<\/strong>, living an estimated 392 years old.<\/li><li>The <strong>oldest tree<\/strong> is a bristlecone pine and is deemed to be 4 852 years old <\/li><li><strong>Earth day<\/strong> was founded by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Thank you for reading, stay tuned for future posts in this series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><em>~Stay Curious~ <\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello fellow space lover, today we are continuing the educational journey through the solar system. The last planet we did was Venus (https:\/\/curiositykilledthecat.co.za\/2021\/11\/14\/interesting-facts-about-venus\/), so naturally our next destination is Earth. Days get longer by 1.7 milliseconds every century because the moon is slowing down the Earth&#8217;s rotation. 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