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The top 3m (10ft) of the ocean hold as much heat as our entire atmosphere. #oceans
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The average depth of the ocean is about four kilometres (2.5 miles). #oceans |
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The Great Barrier Reef, measuring 2,000 km, is the largest living structure on Earth. #oceans
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The largest waterfall on Earth is under water, in the Denmark Strait (between Iceland and Greenland).
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Shark attacks kill between 8-12 people each year. People kill between 20-100 million sharks each year.
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Falling coconuts kill 150 people each year, 15 times the number of deaths attributable to sharks. #oceans
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80% of life on earth is under the ocean. Only 10% has been explored. #oceans
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Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water. #oceans
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Air pollution is responsible for 33% of the toxic contaminants that end up in #oceans & coastal waters.
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Each year, 3 times as much trash is dumped into the world's oceans as the weight of fish caught from them.
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Between 500,000 and 10 million species live in the deep sea, many of them yet to be discovered. #oceans
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Less than one percent of the world's seamounts – mountains under the sea - have been explored. #oceans
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It can take up to 1,000 years for plastic bottles to break up in the ocean. #oceans
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It can take up to two years for a cigarette to break down in the ocean. #oceans
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A single shark may use as many as 30,000 teeth throughout the course of its life. #oceans
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The #Arctic produces 10,000-50,000 icebergs annually. #oceans
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Plastics make up more than half of all of the trash dumped by people at sea and on coastlines. #oceans
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.
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There are 1,642,047,708,000,000,000,000 litres of water in the ocean. #oceans
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The Albatross has a wing span of 3.5 m and only needs to land once every couple of years to breed.
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The Royal albatross flies an estimated 190,000km every year. #oceans
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More than 100,000 albatrosses are killed by long-line fishing gear ever year. #oceans
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Sharks can replace their teeth as often as every nine days. #oceans
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The oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface and contain 97% of the Earth's free water. #oceans
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Between 1985 and 95, shrimp farmers used 36 million tones of wild fish to produce 7.2m tones of shrimp.
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