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Earth has far more water than land

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Earth is terribly misnamed. Our planet should just be called 'Water,' seeing as this single ocean could swallow every single terrestrial continent and still have room left over. It spans almost half the globe, rendering our dirt-based existence mathematically insignificant.

Earth has far more water than land
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