World In One Day Flashcards
Every day in Mexico City, 60,000 people work as taxi drivers.
Every day in China, 26,000 couples get married. The average age for people to marry in China is 30 years old.
The giant bamboo can grow an astonishing 18 inches in one day.
Each one of us takes about 30,000 breaths a day.
The average human heart beats 100,800 times a day the amount of blood that passes through the heart each day would fill 170 bathtubs.
We shed approximately 1 million dead skin cells every 40 minutes. One person will shed enough skin any lifetime to fill a suitcase.
Super sperm. One man’s testes produce nearly 300,000,000 sperm cells each day.
Red blood cells are created and destroyed at the rate of 2,000,000 per second. That is 173 billion cells per person per day.
A tick can spend a whole day feeding on human blood and then after it drops off the skin, it can go a whole year without feeding again.
The population of the United States is 266 million. 6,690 more people are in it every day. Actually in 2020 it’s 330 million people.
Births and deaths in one day all over the World 364,321 people are born and 147,137 people die. So each day there are 217,184 more people on earth.
Every day around the world nearly 150,000 people take their last breath and die. Many die of old age, some Perish in accidents or are murdered, while fatal diseases killed the rest.
Heart disease is 33,000 die every day
Diarrhea 14,000 die every day
Cancer 13,500 die a day
Pneumonia 13,500 die every day
Tuberculosis 8200 die every day
Malaria 5800 die every day
Measles 4000 die every day
Whooping cough 1400 die every day
The fastest food in the world.
Every day Americans munch through 7 million pizzas, eat 4,400 tons of potato chips, 440 tons of pretzels, 300,000 cans of Spam, around 15 million burgers, 4,000,000 gallons of ice cream, 250 million sodas, as well as five French fries each.
654,000 beef cattle are slaughtered every day.
Almost 70,000,000 chickens are slaughtered every day.
The US produce is 32,836 vehicles a day
Japan manufactures 27,933 vehicles every day
Tires 2.3 million tires are manufactured every day.
Paper in the United States.
In one day the United States tosses 222,666 tons of paper.
Sea dumping every day 20,000 tons of litter is chucked into the worlds oceans. The same weight as two Eiffel Towers or 136 blue whales.
Mail.
United States handles 603 million pieces of mail in one day.
All the traffic in the world.
There are 480 million cars and 150 million commercial vehicles in the world. If they all went out at the same time, it would form a six lane traffic jam to the moon.
Golf balls: more than 820,000 golf balls are sold worldwide every day. More than half of them are bought by Japanese golfers.
Golfers by country.
New Zealand 132,000 golfers
Scotland 220,000 golfers
Australia 374,000 golfers
England 495,000 golfers
Japan 8 million golfers
United States 18, million golfers
