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Amazing facts about our planet Earth...

1.Scientists believe Earth may have had two moons at one point in time.

2.Some scientists claim we still have two moons…in a manner of speaking. Every now and then an asteroid will get sucked into Earth's orbit and stick around for up to 9 months.

3.Although earthquakes are no fun, they are not the only quakes that affect the earth. Moon quakes can actually make a difference in the tides.

4.70 percent of the planet is covered in ocean but humans have only explored 5 percent of it.

5.Constructed from millions of tiny polyps, coral reefs are the largest living structures on Earth, some even visible from space.

6.They also contain the highest density of life on the planet, even more than rainforests.

7.Just to leave you with some parting food for thought, the pacific basin contains half of the free water on Earth and could hold all of the world's continents.

8.The coldest spot was Antarctica's vostok station that recorded a bonechilling minus 128.6 degrees fahrenheit (minus 89.2 degrees C)

9.On that note, Antarctica contains about 70 percent of Earth's fresh water and 90 percent of its ice.

10.Earth's magnetic north pole is moving northward at a rate of 10 miles per year.