Here is a fact that might surprise you:
Despite being thousands of miles apart, the Andes mountains and the Himalayas were formed by the same tectonic plate.
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Here is something you likely didn't know:
The Earth has a second, temporary "moon."
While our large, permanent Moon is the only natural satellite that has been with us for eons, the Earth occasionally captures small asteroids with its gravity. These space rocks get pulled into orbit, becoming temporary "minimooens" for a few months or years before escaping back into the solar system.
They are very small and faint, making them difficult to detect, but astronomers confirmed one such object, 2020 CD3, which orbited Earth between 2018 and 2020.
Here is a visualization of this concept:
Here is a fact you might not know: The total mass of all the ants on Earth is roughly equal to the total mass of all the humans.
Scientists estimate that there are about 20 quadrillion ants (20,000,000,000,000,000) currently alive. While individual ants are tiny, their sheer numbers add up to a biomass that rivals our own.
Here is a visual representation of this surprising scale: