Saturday 17 October 2009

Did You Know That...


More or less:

  • there are 31,000 McDonald's in the world,
  • 20 hours of video are posted on YouTube every minute,
  • 5 babies are born every second,
  • 2 persons die every second,
  • Micheal Jackson's Thriller sold 110 million of copies,
  • 32,000,000 people are infected with HIV,
  • over 3 billion people live on less than $ 2.50 a day,
  • there are 16,100 Starbucks in the world,
  • 300 million people are on Facebook,
  • almost 53 millions of cars were produced in 2008,
  • if you google Google, you get 173,000,000 result in about 0.08 seconds,
  • 160 million copies of the IKEA catalogue were printed in 2006,
  • J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings sold 150 million of copies (someone says only 100...),
  • Almost the 25% of the world population has access to Internet,
  • almost 340 million of people are obese in the world,
  • painting No. 5 (1948) by American artist Jackson Pollock was sold for $140 million,
  • 10.4 billion male condoms were used worldwide in 2005,
  • the average American spends 9 hours a day in front of some kind of screen (Tv, Pc, Mobile phone, etc...),
  • in 1917 Coke was already selling 3 million bottles a day,
  • about 1,000 movies are produced by Bollywood each year,
  • 21.17 millon of IPhones were sold until today,
  • Martini was the most googled "cocktail" of 2008 (mojito following).

...Last but not least: today I was supposed to spend some time studying, but I´ve spent an awful lot of time looking for these useless stats! ...That's the way the cookie crumbles...

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