Check Out Some Interesting Facts: :bulletblue: About 1,510 billion liters of water are used worldwide each day. :bulletblue: The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert. :bulletblue: Earth travels through space at 107,343 kilometers per hour. :bulletblue: From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water. :bulletblue: Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground. :bulletblue: Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet. :bulletblue: The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles. :bulletblue: About 540 volcanoes on land are known. No one knows how many undersea volcanoes have erupted through history. :bulletblue: Average 100 lightning strikes occur worldwide every second. :bulletblue: Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons. :bulletblue: Earth's atmosphere is actually about 80 percent nitrogen. Most of the rest is oxygen, with tiny amounts of other stuff thrown in. :bulletblue: Each winter there are about 1 septillion (1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 or a trillion trillion) snow crystals that drop from the sky.