A lot happens around the world at any given moment. People are born and die, get promoted or fired. Billionaires make another thousands while dozens die of starvation or diseases. Incredible amount of resources are used and huge amount of CO2 is pushed into the atmosphere while millions are busy searching for porn or playing Pokemon Go.
If you look at numbers you will realize how huge the world is and how tiny we are as individuals, families, neighborhoods, even as cities and countries. That’s why we combined various cheerful, intriguing, sad or alarming numbers into one tool. Adjust the first field accordingly and check what happens every second, minute, hour or every 800 years.
- 58 airplanes take off around the world every minute
- 5,441,400 pounds of garbage will be created every minute
- 500,500,000,000 times hearts will beat around the world
- 3 million Google searches are performed every second
- 469,445 Facebook Likes happen every second
- 486,111 WhatsApp messages are sent in one second
- 3,137,187 US dollars are donated to charity every minute
- 59 weddings take place every minute
- 1,500,000 people will have orgasm every minute
- America dumps 216 pounds of food every second
- A bee flaps its wings 270 times
- 10,450 Coca-Colas are consumed every second
- 60 lipsticks are produced every second
- 6 lightnings will strike the Earth in the next second
- 100 million sharks are killed every year
- 12 people are killed by sharks every year
- Nike makes $36,505 every minute
- Someone working in a Nike factory in Vietnam makes $0,0014
- Universe expands 2766.4 miles every minute
- Human heart pumps 83 gallons of blood
- 113 babies are born into poverty every minute
- 55,757 barrels of oil are used each minute
- There are 9 new AIDS/HIV infections every minute
- 18 people die of starvation every minute
- The US national debt increases by $50,000 every second – source no longer available (was http://www.sciencedump.com/content/10-incredible-things-happen-every-second)
- 34 trees are cut in the rain forest every second – source no longer available (was http://www.sciencedump.com/content/10-incredible-things-happen-every-second)
- 40,000 new stars are created each second – source no longer available (was http://www.sciencedump.com/content/10-incredible-things-happen-every-second)
- 375 McDonald’s burgers are sold every 5 seconds
- 47 new websites are created every 5 seconds
- 17 million emails are sent every 5 seconds
- 15,800 tons of water flow over Niagara Falls every 5 seconds
- 80 million tons of water has evaporated from the Earth’s surface over the last 5 seconds
- 500,000 chemical reactions take place in every single cell of our body every 5 seconds
- Bill Gates earns $1,250 every 5 seconds
- 4,3 people are born every second
- 1,8 people will die in the next second
- 37,000 child marriages take place every day
- 1,800 stars explode every minute
- 3,287 people die in car accidents every day
- Every second 372 people search for pornography in Google
- 1,676 billion US dollars is spent on military every year
- 1.28 Christian, 0.93 Muslim and 0.64 Hindu babies are born every second
SANTOSH KULKARNI 