Dec 6, 2008

Silly little facts... IV

Interesting trivia with regards to time....

Consumers buy about $5 billion worth of dietary supplements -- pills, herbs, teas -- each year.
Every minute, five people worldwide between the ages of 10-24 are infected with HIV.
A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.
Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Americans consume 4,848 cups of coffee per second, 24 hours a day.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.
An average American child watches approximately 28 hours of television in one week.
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
Someone gets divorced every ten to thirteen seconds.
Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

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