second facts
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 of morons 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.
We based the numbers on real data from the following sources:
58 airplanes take off around the world every minute - Source
5,441,400 pounds of garbage will be created every minute - Source
500,500,000,000 times hearts will beat around the world - Source
3 million Google searches are performed every second - Source
469,445 Facebook Likes happen every second - Source
486,111 WhatsApp messages are sent in one second - Source
3,137,187 US dollars are donated to charity every minute - Source
59 weddings take place every minute - Source
1,500,000 people will have orgasm every minute - Source
America dumps 216 pounds of food every second - Source
A bee flaps its wings 270 times - Source
10,450 Coca-Colas are consumed every second - Source
60 lipsticks are produced every second - Source
6 lightnings will strike the Earth in the next second - Source
100 million sharks are killed every year - Source
12 people are killed by sharks every year - Source
Nike makes $36,505 every minute - Source
Someone working in a Nike factory in Vietnam makes $0,0014 - Source
Universe expands 2766.4 miles every minute - Source
Human heart pumps 83 gallons of blood - Source
113 babies are born into poverty every minute - Source
55,757 barrels of oil are used each minute - Source
There are 9 new AIDS/HIV infections every minute - Source
18 people die of starvation every minute - Source
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 - Source
47 new websites are created every 5 seconds - Source
17 million emails are sent every 5 seconds - Source
15,800 tons of water flow over Niagara Falls every 5 seconds - Source
80 million tons of water has evaporated from the Earth's surface over the last 5 seconds - Source
500,000 chemical reactions take place in every single cell of our body every 5 seconds - Source
Bill Gates earns $1,250 every 5 seconds - Source
4,3 people are born every second - Source
1,8 people will die in the next second - Source
37,000 child marriages take place every day - Source
1,800 stars explode every minute - Source
3,287 people die in car accidents every day - Source
Every second 372 people search for pornography in Google - Source
1,676 billion US dollars is spent on military every year - Source
1.28 Christian, 0.93 Muslim and 0.64 Hindu babies are born every second - Source
