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10 Interesting Facts About Earth

2015-04-04T07:49:00.000-07:00

10 Interesting Facts About Earth

Planet Profile

Mass: 5,972,190,000,000,000 billion kg
Equatorial Diameter: 12,756 km
Polar Diameter: 12,714 km
Equatorial Circumference: 40,030 km
Known Moons: 1
Notable Moons: The Moon
Orbit Distance: 149,598,262 km (1 AU)
Orbit Period: 365.26 Earth days
Surface Temperature: -88 to 58°C

As well known and well traveled as our planet is, there are still new things being discovered every day. In fact, most of our oceans haven’t even been explored yet which is why when new depths are located; they often come with hundreds of new species. Rain forests offer up new animals and plants as often as we can explore them. The Earth is constantly changing, shifting, and exposing new secrets for humans to marvel at. It took many years and many great minds to solve the problem of getting through Earth’s atmosphere into the wide expanse of space beyond. Here are ten amazing facts about our home that you may not be aware of.

#1 The Earth Is Not Round

The Earth is a sphere, but due to its gravitational forces it is not a perfect circle. In fact, there is a bulge around the equator because of this. The Earth's Polar radius is 3,949.99 miles, while its Equatorial radius is 3,963.34 miles. That's right: the Earth has love handles.

#2 Drilled A Tunnel Straight Through The Earth

If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side

#3 Living Organisms On Earth

There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people on earth

#4 The Earth- What’s in a Name?

Earth is the only planet not named for a mythological god or goddess. The other seven planets in the solar system were named after Roman gods or goddesses. For the five visible to the naked eye, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn they we named during ancient times. This Roman method was also used after the discovery of Uranus and Neptune. The word “Earth” comes from the Old English word “ertha” meaning ground or land.

#5 Earth's Deepest Known Point

The earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end

#6 Mountains

The Andes Mountain range in South America is 4,525 miles long and ranks, as the world’s longest. Second Longest: The Rockies; Third: Himalayas; Fourth: The Great Dividing Range in Australia; Fifth: Trans-Antarctic Mountains. For every 980 feet you climb up a mountain, the temperature drops 3-1/2 degrees.

#7 No 24 Hours In A Day

There are no 24 hours in a day. It has 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.

#8 Earth IS The Most Dense Planer In The Solar System

The density of Earth differs in each part of the planet – the core, for example, is denser than the Earth’s crust – but the average density of the planet is around 5.52 grams per cubic centimetre.

#9 Earth Has A Very Powerful Magnetic Field

This field protects the planet from the effects of solar winds and is believed to be a result of the nickel-iron core of the planet combined with its rapid rotation.

#10 Gold In Earth's Core

There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.

10 Interesting Facts About YouTube

2015-04-03T00:01:00.000-07:00

10 Interesting Facts About YouTube

#1 The glorious history of YouTube

YouTube began when three former PayPal employees started to create a video-sharing website on which users could upload, share, and view videos. The Internet domain name "youtube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005.YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.

#2 Google bought YouTube

In October 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stocks, just18 months after YouTube’s creation. Karim received $66 million in Google stock, Chen received $310 million, and Hurley received $334 million.

#3 Domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day

The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005.The domain name caused a huge misunderstanding for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment. Its company domain, “utube.com,” was overwhelmed with traffic from people that tried to spell the video site’s name phonetically.

#4 The first video on YouTube

The first video on YouTube is of one of the co-founders Jawed Karim talking about elephant’s trunks titled “Me at the Zoo” shot at the San Diego Zoo.The first video has received over 4.8 million views.

#5 April Fools!

Since 2008, YouTube has featured an April Fools' Day prank on April 1 of every year. The first prank, known as "rickrolling," remains a classic: The featured videos on YouTube's main page linked to the music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." From turning the site upside-down in 2009 to allowing users to submit ideas for memes in 2014, YouTube knows how to pull a great prank.

#6 Surprising stats

YouTube says users worldwide upload 100 hours of video each minute, and more than 6 billion hours of video are watched each month. More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month, and 80 percent of traffic comes from outside the U.S.

#7 Money Money Money

More than a 1 million creators from over 30 countries are earning money from their YouTube videos. 75% of YouTube in-stream ads are now skippable.Advertisers were estimated to have spent $5.60 billion on YouTube in 2013.YouTube videos influence the purchasing decisions of 53% of all consumers in the U.S. Major brands only generate 3% of the 14.9 billion beauty-related video views on YouTube.

#8 YouTube's Social Stats

Social media-related YouTube stats are just as impressive. YouTube says that on average there are more than 400 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link. Meanwhile, over on Facebook over 150 years worth of YouTube videos are watched every single day.

#9 Paid subscription

In 2013, Google said it would start offering paid subscription content of certain YouTube channels. The subscription-only videos will include up to 50 YouTube channels. Users will pay $1.99 a month to subscribe to certain channels.

#10 Other facts

Millions of subscriptions happen each day.

Millions of videos are favorited every day.

YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day.

The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites.

10 Interesting Facts About Google

2015-04-02T00:07:00.001-07:00

10 Interesting Facts About Google

#1 The glorious history of Google

starts with two students Larry Page 23 and Sergey Brin 24, who were pursuing their Ph.D. at Stanford University, when they got the idea to create a new search engine. Supposedly, Larry Page and Sergey Brin did not like each other initially. They thought they have nothing in common, but with time they learned life lessons together, they went on to become best friends for life. This was perhaps a rather strange way of starting a venture as big as Google.

#2 Over the years, the founders still prefer

Over the years, the founders still prefer and insist to keep the home page simple and they insist that the words on the home page do not exceed 28 words.

#3 Google is an international company, with

its homepage available in 88 different languages, making it a company that respects and understands international requirements.

#4 The name Google was a misspelling

The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’

#5 Google’s headquarters are known as

the Googleplex. Googleplex combines the words Google and complex. It's also a play on the world googolplex which is a huge number ( A googol is 10¹⁰⁰ a googolplex is 10 to the power of googol!)

#6 Google offices do not have

a dress code. A Googler can wear anything to the office. even bodypaint...

#7 Google encourages its engineers to spend

20% of their time on ideas of their own. Google has many products that came out of this 20% idea.

#8 Did you know that you can make phone calls with Gmail?

It is a very interesting and probably unknown fact that in the US, one can make calls to any phone, directly from their Gmail account. This is really a great feature because calls within US and Canada are free.

#9 Google has designed driverless cars

based around a modified Toyota Prius. Google lobbied the Nevada state to pass laws to allow driverless vehicles so Google were granted a licence to test their cars in Nevada.

#10 Google first tweet

Google’s first tweet was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” It means i am feeling lucky in binary code.

Shock sites

2015-04-01T11:51:00.000-07:00

Shock sites

A shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive, disgusting, or disturbing to its viewers. They contain material of high shock value that is considered distasteful and crude; the content is generally of a pornographic, scatological, graphically violent, insulting, painful, profane, or otherwise provocative nature. Some shock sites display a single picture, animation, video clip or a small gallery, and are often passed around via email or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a prank.Steven Jones distinguishes these sites from those that collect galleries of shocking content, such as Rotten.com, as the gallery sites must be actively searched for content.

Some shock sites have also gained their own subcultures and have become internet memes on their own. Goatse.cx featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site's hello.jpg, and a parody of the image was unwittingly shown by a BBC newscast as an alternative for the then recently unveiled logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics.A 2007 shock video known as 2 Girls 1 Cup also quickly became an Internet phenomenon, with videos of reactions, homages, and parodies widely posted on video sharing sites such as YouTube.

1 :-Bestgore.com

Main article: Bestgore.com

BestGore.com is famous for its extremely graphic content such as murders, suicides and violent accidents in the form of photos and videos. It is currently the most visited shock website in the world, with an estimated 15 - 20 million monthly visits. On July 2013, the website's creator, Slovakian-Canadian Mark Marek, was charged with one count of "corrupting morals", related to his posting of the video of the murder of Lin Jun on his website. He was released on bail and is currently awaiting trial.

2 :-Goatse.cx

Main article: Goatse.cx

Goatse.cx was one of the best-known shock sites, featuring an image of a man stretching his anus with his hands. The site featured a page devoted to fan-submitted artwork and tributes to the site, and a parody of the image was also shown by a BBC newscast as an alternative for the then recently unveiled logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The site was shut down in 2004; however, various mirror sites featuring the image still exist. In 2012, it was resurrected as an e-mail service.

3 :-Lemonparty

Lemonparty.org contains an image of three elderly naked men in a bed kissing and having oral sex. The song "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul plays in the background. The image has been mentioned on some television shows, such as in a sketch on Talkshow with Spike Feresten, and dialogue on Archer, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show and 30 Rock. The website has also been described by Jimmy Fallon on the Opie and Anthony radio show, on Chelsea Handler's TV show Chelsea Lately, Michael J. Nelson from RiffTrax.com during the RiffTrax for Avatar,by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, and American Dad.The NBC show 30 Rock has made at least three allusions to a "Lemon party.

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10 Interesting Facts About Earth

10 Interesting Facts About Earth

Planet Profile

#1 The Earth Is Not Round

#2 Drilled A Tunnel Straight Through The Earth

#3 Living Organisms On Earth

There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people on earth

#4 The Earth- What’s in a Name?

#5 Earth's Deepest Known Point

The earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end

#6 Mountains

#7 No 24 Hours In A Day

There are no 24 hours in a day. It has 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.

#8 Earth IS The Most Dense Planer In The Solar System

The density of Earth differs in each part of the planet – the core, for example, is denser than the Earth’s crust – but the average density of the planet is around 5.52 grams per cubic centimetre.

#9 Earth Has A Very Powerful Magnetic Field

This field protects the planet from the effects of solar winds and is believed to be a result of the nickel-iron core of the planet combined with its rapid rotation.

#10 Gold In Earth's Core

There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.

10 Interesting Facts About YouTube

10 Interesting Facts About YouTube

#1 The glorious history of YouTube

#2 Google bought YouTube

#3 Domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day

#4 The first video on YouTube

#5 April Fools!

#6 Surprising stats

#7 Money Money Money

#8 YouTube's Social Stats

#9 Paid subscription

#10 Other facts

Millions of subscriptions happen each day. Millions of videos are favorited every day. YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day. The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites.

10 Interesting Facts About Google

10 Interesting Facts About Google

#1 The glorious history of Google

#2 Over the years, the founders still prefer

#3 Google is an international company, with

#4 The name Google was a misspelling

#5 Google’s headquarters are known as

#6 Google offices do not have

#7 Google encourages its engineers to spend

#8 Did you know that you can make phone calls with Gmail?

#9 Google has designed driverless cars

#10 Google first tweet

Shock sites

Millions of subscriptions happen each day.

Millions of videos are favorited every day.

YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day.

The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites.