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Earth Holds Some Strange Secrets, and We’re Reminding You About 20 of Them

Popular Mechanics

September 16, 2021 at 9:34 AM

Earth Holds Some Strange Secrets, and We’re Reminding You About 20 of Them

Earth’s Core Is as Hot as the Sun’s Surface

Earth Is Radioactive

Life Below the Seafloor

Mosses Are Everywhere

Earthquake Weather Is a Myth

Seas Could Rise 2.5 Feet By 2100

Clouds Help Regulate Earth's Temperature

The Planet Is 10,000 Times Older Than Humans

We Don’t Know Who “Named” the Earth

Earth Is a Heat Engine

But...Not An Efficient One

Route 66 Is Longer Than the Distance to the Earth’s Core

A Magnitude 12 Earthquake Would Split the Earth in Half

Earthquakes Can Be Felt on the Other Side of the Planet

The First Ozone Hole Is Still Healing

There Are a Billion Microbes in a Teaspoon of Soil

The Earth Isn’t Exactly Round

Days Are Getting Longer

You Can See Earth Shrinking From Space

There Are More Viruses Than Stars in the Universe

Earth Holds Some Strange Secrets, and We’re Reminding You About 20 of Them

Since 1970, Earth Day has existed to showcase the beautiful planet, third from the sun, that we call home. More specifically, Earth Day has been used to highlight the various environmental problems—such as climate change—that our planet has faced due to industrial and technological advances.

But Earth Day should be everyday—we only get one big, beautiful blue planet, after all. So here are 20 amazing reasons why we love this rock called Earth, based on the science from leading experts.

More From Popular Mechanics:

-Why One Side of Earth Is Rapidly Getting Colder Than the Other

-The Moon May Have Never Had a Magnetic Field at All. So What Does This Mean?

-Here's the Weird Thing That Causes the Smell of Spring

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Our home planet holds some strange secrets. These are the 20 weirdest facts about planet Earth.

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