What an interesting question! I can honestly say I haven't heard of this before or even really considered it before! In order to solve this, we first need to find the mass of the Earth and the mass of an average mole. The mass of the planet is approximately 5.98 x 10^24 kg. As best I can tell, an adult mole weighs between 34 and 170 grams, depending on the particular species. ...
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