Do you think you know everything about our planet? Here are facts that you may never think of! Learn more about the universe with Stars Memories.

Did you know that Asia is the largest continent on Earth? What is crazier, is that 60 percent of the world population lives in Asia! Of course, when you think that there are countries like China and India in Asia, you understand why there is a huge percentage of the population.

You might never think about that, but days on Earth are getting longer every century (1.7 milliseconds every century)! About 4.5 billion years ago, a day on our planet was about 6 hours long. As now it lasts 24 hours, it will last longer and longer!

Did you know that 70 percent of Earth’s freshwater is in Antarctica? But about 90 percent of it isn’t water – it’s frozen polar ice sheets.

This may sound crazy but about 6 thousand lighting strikes happen on our planet per minute!

Have you ever thought of how far away from us is the sun?

According to scientists, it is about 150 million kilometers away (that is about 93 million miles). The fun fact is that it takes about 8 minutes from sunlight to reach Earth!

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Greenland is the world’s biggest island.

The Amazon is the world’s biggest rainforest.

The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert.

Stromboli Volcano is the world’s most active volcano.