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May 23, 2014 by kevinstilley

How Many?

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year.

The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.

Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.

Americans consumed 76 billion pounds of red meat and poultry in the year 2000, up 21% from a decade earlier.

Americans consume 29 billion, or 58 percent, of the 50 billion aspirin tablets which are taken worldwide each year.

Golfers use an estimated $800 million worth of golf balls annually.

There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of french fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.

The Mills Brothers have recorded more songs than any other artist(s): about 2,250.

Over 40 percent of the women in the U.S. were in the Girl Scouts organization. Two-thirds of the women listed in “Who’s Who of Women” were Girl Scouts.

In any given week, an average of 2.3 million Americans are on paid vacation.

By the time a child finishes elementary school he/she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.

About twenty-five percent of the population sneezes when they are exposed to light.

The longest alphabet is Cambodian. It has 74 letters compared with the 26 in English.

Over 36 million Americans have Irish ancestry. That’s almost nine times the population of Ireland, which has 4.4 million people.

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Numbers Trivia

The number 4 is the only number in the English language that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.

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