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BY ERIN WHITMER
The word“volcano”
comes from the
nameof theRoman
fire god,Vulcan.
Cheetah
ancestors roamed
North America
about four
million
years ago.
It would take
a stack of more
than 100 , 000
giraf fes
to reach the
outermost
layer of Earth’s
atmosphere.
Nearly 7 , 000
dif ferent
languages are
spokenworldwide.
The air trapped
inside an iceberg
can be thousands
of years old.
earthshaking
facts about
our^
world
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