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20 things that happen in a minute - Birth, death, natural disasters, Oprah earns money



You'll need to click through to see the full image and be able to read it all.

It's just a bunch of quirky facts about things that occur in a minute. Some are interesting tidbits like "Lightning strikes the earth 360 times and there are 5 earthquakes."

Others are a bit saddening or put things into perspective such as "120,673 pounds of edible food is thrown away in the United States" and "18 people die of starvation."

3 comments:
Lemon Stand said...

I can tell you what else takes only a minute...

All five of my kids to start complaining about each other once they are in the same vicinity of each other.

Quirky Jessi said...

Haha, maybe they should've added that to the list, too!

College Stress said...

Wow look how precious life is. Also how much food we throw away while there are people starving. This chart is very sentimental because it proves there is a lot more as humans we need to overcome.

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