1. 由於地球自轉的緣故,有些地方的重力比較小,像是加拿大的哈德森灣 (Hudson Bay)。
![Because of the Earth's rotation, some areas experience less gravity than others. One such area is Hudson Bay in Canada.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-26.jpg)
2. 由於太陽光會被海洋反射,地球遠遠望去是最亮的一顆行星。
![Because sunlight reflects off of water, Earth is the brightest planet from a distance.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-21.jpg)
3. 地球90%的火山在海底下。
![90% of all Earth's volcanos are underwater.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-13.jpg)
(感謝老天!)
4. 俄羅斯的貝加爾湖 (Lake Baikal) 擁有地球上近1/5的淡水。
![Lake Baikal in Russia has nearly 1/5 of all of the fresh water located on Earth.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-9.jpg)
5. 由於自轉力量的緣故,地球並不是一顆正圓形。
![The Earth is not a perfect sphere. This is due to the force of its spin.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-1.jpg)
(扁掉了!)
6. 海洋中90%的垃圾是塑膠。
![90% of garbage in the ocean is plastic.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-2.jpg)
(汗顏吧!人類)
7. 臭氧層不斷在消失,2012年甚至成為近10年最稀薄的一次。
![The ozone layer is shrinking and was smaller in 2012 than it had ever been in the last decade.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-3.jpg)
8. 地球最遠的照片是從59億公里遠處拍攝而成。這張照片被稱為「黯淡藍點」(The Pale Blue Dot)。
![The farthest picture ever taken of Earth was from 3.7 billion miles away and it has been called The Pale Blue Dot.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-4.jpg)
(真的很黯淡…)
9. 中國的空氣污展在外太空也看得見,澳洲大堡礁一樣看得到,但長城不行。
![Air pollution in China is visible from Space, as is the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Wall, however, is not.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-5.jpg)
10. 地球只需要23小時56分鐘4秒就可以自轉一圈。這被稱為「一個恆星日」。
![The Earth only takes 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds to spin on its axis. This is called a sidereal day.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-6.jpg)
11. 有3萬8千個人造物體繞著地球飛行。
![There are 38,000 man-made objects orbiting the Earth.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-8.jpg)
12. …其中2萬2千個超過10公尺大。
![22,000 of them are larger than 10 meters.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-20.jpg)
13. 而且每天至少有一個會掉回地球上。
![And every day at least one of them comes crashing back to Earth.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-7.jpg)
14. 地球97%的水是鹽水。
![97% of the water on Earth is saltwater.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-24.jpg)
15. 剩下3%的淡水中,有70%在極地結成冰塊。
![70% of that remaining 3% is wrapped up in the polar icecaps.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-11.jpg)
16. 其餘的大部分在土壤中,或是人類難以汲取的深層地底中。
![Most of the rest is either soil moisture or deep underground in inaccessible aquifers.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-10.jpg)
17. 1公升鹹水中包含130億分之1克的黃金。
![1 liter of saltwater contains 13 billionths of a gram of gold.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-12.jpg)
18. 地球是太陽系中唯一有板塊運動的星球,透過板塊運動可讓「碳」被循環回收,如果少了這些,地球就會像金星一樣過熱。
![Earth is the only planet in the solar system with plate tectonics. Without them carbon would not be recycled and the Earth would overheat, something like Venus.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-14.jpg)
19. 99%的黃金在地球核心裡。
![99% of the gold on Earth lies in its core](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-15.jpg)
(現在你知道該去哪裡挖寶了吧!)
20. 地心的溫度高達5千5百度,相當於太陽表面溫度。
![At 5,500 degree, the Earth's core is the same temperature as the surface of the sun.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-16.jpg)
(殘念!黃金挖不到了…)
21. 每年有約有4000萬公噸重的沙塵被風從撒哈拉吹到亞馬遜。
![Wind transports 40 million tons of dust from the Sahara to the Amazon every year.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-17.jpg)
22. 南極洲的乾燥谷 (Dry Valleys) 是地球上最乾燥的地方,已經超過200萬年沒下雨了。
![Antartica's Dry Valleys is the driest place on Earth. It hasn't rained there for over 2 million years.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-18.jpg)
(還好我不住那邊…)
23. 在19公里高處會出現「阿姆斯壯極限」(Armstrong Limit) 。由於周遭壓力過低,水的沸點會降至接近人類的體溫(攝氏37度),所以超過「阿姆斯壯極限」後就必須穿上太空衣。
![At 19 km (12 miles) high we encounter something known as the Armstrong Limit. This is where it becomes necessary to wear a spacesuit because due to the low pressure, water boils at body temperature.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-19.jpg)
(不然眼淚就會…沸騰給你看!)
24. 每天有860萬個雷擊。
![There are 8.6 million lightning strikes everyday.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-23.jpg)
25. 我們對宇宙比對海洋和地心清楚,其實,95%的海底世界仍屬未探索。
![We know more about our universe than we do about our oceans or our Earth's core. In fact, 95% of the world's oceanic territory has still not been explored.</p><br /><br />
<p>Via](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/random-facts-about-earth-that-might-catch-you-off-guard-25-photos-25.jpg)
(水怪表示:沒事不要下來吵我!)
來源:TheChive
原來大家住的地球有這麼多我們不知道的祕密!不過有一件事是大家都知道的,那就是「地球只有一個,大家要好好愛護它啊!」。
(往下還有更多精彩文章!)