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Fact #1: Â If you took all the water on Earth and collected it into a single drop, it would be just less than 1400 kilometers (860 miles) across.
Fact #2: Â It may come as no surprise that the coldest place on Earth can be found in Antarctica, but the chill factor is somewhat unbelievable. Winter temperatures there can drop below minus 100 degrees F (minus 73 degrees C). The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth came from Russia's Vostok Station, where records show the air plunged to a bone-chilling minus 128.6 degrees F (minus 89.2 degrees C) on July 21,1983, according to the USGS.
Fact #3: Â The deepest point on the ocean floor is 35,813 feet below sea level in the Mariana Trench. The lowest point on Earth not covered by ocean is 8,382 feet below sea level, but good luck walking there: That spot is in the Bentley Sub-glacial Trench in Antarctica, buried under lots and lots of ice.
Fact #4: Â Thunder and lightning reveal our planet's fiercer side. A single stroke of lightning can heat the air to around 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to educational website Windows to the Universe, causing the air to expand rapidly. That ballooning air creates a shock wave and ultimately a boom, better known as thunder.
Fact #5: Â The driest spot on Earth is the Atacama Desert of Chile and Peru. In the center of this desert, there are places where rain has never been recorded.
