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Friday, March 27, 2009

PLANET EARTH

Here are some fast facts on Planet Earth that you might want to get to know her better,

*Earth spins at about 1,073,203 km per hour - the ultimate speed devil.
*Contrary to popular depiction, our planet is actually shaped like a pumpkin and is getting fatter in the middle as the mountain glaciers melt
*Mount Everest is the highest mountain on earth, but the honour of gigest mountain goes to Hawaii's Mauna Loa
*The Amazon provides about 20 percent of the freshwater that flows into the oceans
*The hottest place ever recorded on earth: El Azizia in Libya, at 57 degrees celcius
*Earth in numbers: 24 time zones, Almost 7,000 languages - about a third have writing systems
*10,000 religions, with various denominations. Around 1.5 million known animal species; of that, nearly 12,000 species are endangered
* Mandarin is the most widely spoken language (over one billion people), followed by English (508 million), Hindustani (497 million) and Spanish (392 million)
*Tropical rainforests are the world's oldest ecosystems; they absorb solar radiation, which helps regulate global warming
*Nearly one third of all energy used is by people at home
*We may count 24 hours in a day, but the earth actually takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and four seconds to rotate on its axis; the time taken by earth to orbit around the sun adds another four minutes

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