7 little-known facts about our planet they never taught you in school

5/20/2018

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Science Story: 7 little-known facts about our planet they never taught you in school

Our planet is beautiful and bizarre, and today we know a lot about Earth. But, as it turns out, your school teachers didn't tell you all the interesting stories about our home planet...

#1

Science Story: The Moon could have been a part of Earth

Some scientists believe that our natural satellite came from Earth! As they say, our planet was hit by a large object, which resulted in the splitting off of a small piece of Earth and the formation of the Moon. Have you ever heard about that?

#2

Science Story: Earth's North and South magnetic poles will flip

As it turns out, the magnetic field of our planet is not constant. It keeps changing all the time, and, over the past 150 years, the magnetic North Pole has moved approximately 685 miles across northern Canada! Almost 800,000 years ago the magnetic poles of Earth already reversed. It can happen again and become a disastrous event humans have never seen before.

#3

Science Story: Some places on Earth have unusually low gravity

Earth is not a perfect sphere, that's why its mass is not even. It results in fluctuations in gravity in different places on our planet. For example, a 150-pound (68-kilogram) person will weight a tenth of an ounce (2.8 grams)less in Canada’s Hudson Bay than in a place with normal gravity.

#4

Some scientists believe there is another cosmic object constantly rotating around our planet. Anyway, it's more likely that Earth just attracts big asteroids, which can orbit the planet for some time.

#5

They are less common and weaker than earthquakes, but they are real. Moonquakes usually occur close to the core of the Moon.

#6

Science Story: There is another habitable planet in the Milky Way galaxy

The scientists named it HD 904790 b and found out that it has an atmosphere suitable for life, important natural resources and even... fresh water! In the future, HD 904790 b can be be inhabited by humans, but it will take us approximately 300,000 years to reach it.

#7

Science Story: There are large amounts of gold buried deep within the Earth's core

If taken to the surface, it would be enough to cover the entire land surface of the planet with a 1.6 ft (0,5 meters)) layer of gold.

Was this information new for you? Which facts surprised you the most? Are you going to share this knowledge with your children? Do you know any other interesting facts about Earth?

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What are your thoughts on this subject?

69 Comments

Julie Domaille

I hope there is a costa coffee & a toilet break on the way to the new planet

Jaimi McEntire

#6 is an article from "The Onion", a satirical website, and not the truth.

Eric Leif Peters

The Earth and Moon were formed by the collision of two protoplanets. There is no evidence for any body other than the Moon orbiting the Earth.

Albert Zehr

By the time my great grandkids are adults these “facts” will have been replaced by new fads. By then they may realize that, “in the beginning God created…”

Eve

This is quiz club so I will be checking these "facts" with other sources. I'm afraid they have proven to be less than truthful in the past.

Aurora

Very interesting story 😀

Allison Aspden

Interesting planetary facts.

Sarah Wallace

Check out the thousands of satellites!Eric Leif Peters,

Steve Tingle

Remember reading a book by Carl Sagan in the 60s where he claimed the moon had been knocked off the earth leaving the Pacific ocean, it was dismissed by other scientists but I'm interested to see it is coming back. Mind you there have been a lot of other discoveries, when I first started studying Geology the general theory of plate techtonics had been rejected (it was first proposed in the early 20th century) but by the time I got my degree (in Geology and Geography) it wasm firmly back in the sylabus.

Richard Adams

Gold was a new one.

aaustin

Harry Rogers, True! The price of gold is determined by the amount of gold we have. If the extra gold went into the supply chain, gold would become worthless. But the price could be artificially defined by a company or entity controlling the amount that was available. This is how the price of diamonds is kept high.

aaustin

I knew some of the information, but it was nice to learn new things.

Sheila Lawton

All new to me

Harry Rogers

Interesting thing about gold. The reason why gold is expensive is because it is rare. If gold were more plentiful and readily available, then the price of gold will drop drastically.