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Currently the world's largest globe is located in Yarmouth, Maine. This globe is called
"Eartha" and is more than 41 feet in diameter. In addition, Eartha makes a complete rotation every minute.
Earth is approximately 4.65 billion years old.
Earth measures 24,901.5 miles around and weighs 6,585,600,000,000,000,000,000
tons.
H2O covers almost 75% of the Earth's surface!
There are approximately 6,000 languages in use.
Ten million species of living things exist on Earth.
Click here to see the Earth's current human population:
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
At the end of the 1800s the Polish doctor L.L. Zamenhof attempted
to create a world language called Esperanto (meaning one who hopes).
Esperanto was different than English:
-the
accent always falls on the next to last syllable
-all adjectives end in "a"
-all adverbs end in "e"
*EC-Submit an interesting fact about the world to Mr. Krieger.
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