Every year, there are millions and millions of random facts and statistics gathered by researchers, scientists and analysts. These numbers are often times too large to interpret and the shear magnitude of the numbers can be overwhelming. Here are 20 figures scaled down to 60 seconds in order to grasp how wild some of these numbers are.
- the average American household makes $0.096
- 250 babies are born
- 113 are born into poverty
- 15 have birth defects
- Oprah Winfrey makes $523
- the average person in the world makes $0.013
- the average person in the United States with an IT career makes $0.13
- the average persion in India with an IT career makes $0.025
- someone working in a Nike factory in Vietnam makes $0.0014
- Nike makes $36,505
- 3 violent crimes are committed in the United States
- there are 2 auto thefts committed in the United States
- 55,757 barrels of oil are used
- lightening strikes the Earth 360 times
- there are 5 earthquakes
- 120,673 pounds of edible food is thrown away in the United States
- 950,186 pounds of trash is thrown away in the United States
- there are 9 new AIDS/HIV infections
- there are 107 deaths
- 18 die from starvation
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Are you insane? 55,757 barrels of oil used a MINUTE? That would require a daily worldwide production of 80,290,080 barrels of oil, just to break even. Eighty million barrels of oil per day? according to the CIA factbook, the largest oil-producing country produces 10 million barrels a day. and that’s a significant lead on the other countries. No freakin’ way.
But c’mon, Dan. It says it right there on the Interwebz. It must be true!