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About 540 volcanoes on land are known. No one knows how many undersea volcanoes have erupted through history.

The deepest depth in the ocean is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean well south of Japan near the Mariana Islands.

250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles or 510 million square kilometers. The Earth is a water heavy planet, so, if you break its surface area into water and land segments, it would look like this: Land 149 million km Water 361 million km

“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.  It’s the only one in which removing the hyphen and merging the two words is a practical option.

The word “Arctic” comes from the ancient Greek Arktikos, or “country of the great bear.” Though the Greeks had no knowledge of the polar bear, they named the region after the constellation Ursus Major, the Great Bear, found in the Northern Sky.

Louisiana loses about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of land each year to coastal erosion, hurricanes, other natural and human causes and a thing called subsidence, which means sinking.

If you ate too many carrots, you’d turn orange.

Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.