In A Minute...

20 things that happen in 1 minute 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. 250 babies are born 113 are born into poverty the average American household makes $0.096 15 have birth defects Oprah Winfrey makes $523 the average person in the world makes $0.013 the average person the average person in India with an in the United States with an IT career makes $0.13 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 55,757 barrels of oil committed in the United States are used lightning 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 R.I.P there are 107 deaths 18 die from Starvation Sources: http://www.everysecond.info/resources/resources.php http://www.dleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwe http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/bdefects.htm http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats http://www.justice.gov/dea/statistics.htm http://www.forbes.com http://www.who.int/whosis/mort/en/ www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm http://www.roger-russell.com/lightning/lightning.htm http://environmentnationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/hurricane-profile.html http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html http://www.good.is/post/the-united-states-is-a-food-wasteland/ http://www.epa.gov/waste/basic-solid.htm