15 Things You Didn’t Know About Earth

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10 – Twin Planet,

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  • There is a well known theory that at the beginning of Earth’s development there existed a smaller twin planet known as Theia, roughly the size of mars
  • 5 billion years ago it crashed into Earth and while most of it was absorbed into Earth’s crust, the rest drifted off and formed that celestial body known as the Moon
  • The reason this theory came about is because typically planets of Earth’s size don’t have moons quite so big, and not to mention various matters found on the Moon are somehow shared with Earth

9 – Heat,

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  • Many assume the Sun to be our main source of energy, a life-giving ball of energy to which we are utterly dependent – and that if we ever stopped receiving heat from the sun, the human race would go extinct
  • In reality, Earth’s core is just as hot as the surface of the Sun – between 5,000 to 7,000 degrees celcius
  • In the event of a catastrophe say, sun rays are permanently blocked by clouds and all land on Earth freezes, we can still harness the energy within Earth to keep us alive

8 – Exploding Lakes,

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  • Three lakes in Cameroon, near the border of the Congo named Nyos, Monoun and Kivu – more commonly referred to as the exploding lakes
  • In 1984 on a small stretch of road, a gas cloud appeared and swallowed a great many local villagers walking on their way to work before getting swept away with the wind
  • 37 people were killed instantly, and they discovered the gas cloud was in fact carbon dioxide released in an explosion from the lakes, which happened to be sitting above volcanic Earth – and continue to do so to this day

7 – Unexplored Oceans,

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  • Even though we’ve touched down on the Moon and conquered vast mountains, the truth is we’ve only explored little under 10% of the ocean
  • To this day we’ve only discovered near 210,000 underwater species with an estimated 20 million yet to be seen
  • That means a distant fish-human hybrid may indeed have evolved somewhere deep beneath the ocean surface, and mermaids could still be a real thing – either that, or more species of fungus

6 – Supercontinent,

The Pangea supercontinent – or how the world looked once and might again.

  • Back a long time ago when dinosaurs first roamed the Earth, there existed a supercontinent called Pangaea that merged all the countries of the world together into one landmass
  • But did you know that another supercontinent will form in the next 250 million years?
  • It’s name will be Pangaea Ultima, including a subduction of the western Atlantic, the destruction of the Atlantic and Indian basin, rejoining America with Africa and Europe – the centre of this giant landmass effectively a semi-arad desert prone to extreme temperatures

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