It's another birthday!
Today's the littlest Hinckley's Birthday. He's turning a whopping 11 years old.
Happy Birthday, Samuel!
And for the birthday boy, here are some birthday facts:
- More people celebrate their birthdays in August than in any other month (about 9% of all people). The two other months that rate high for birthdays are July and September.
- Close to 2 billion Birthday Cards are sent each year in the U.S. alone, accounting for nearly 58 percent of all cards sent.
- The world's largest birthday cake was created in 1989 for the 100th Birthday of the city of Fort Payne, Alabama. The cake weighed 128,238 pounds, 8 oz. and used 16,209 pounds of icing.
- A recent survey suggests that more people are born on October 5 in the United States than any other day. October 5 holds a not-so-surprising significance, as conception would have fallen on New Year's Eve.
- The least common birth date in the U.S. is May 22nd.
- Since your last birthday 31,536,000 seconds have passed.
- In the past year your hair will most likely have grown 12 cm and your nails about 4 cm.
Your heart beats at a rate of around of 72 to 80 beats per minute - since your last birthday it will have beat about 42,075,900 times. - You breath at a rate of about 30 breaths per minute so, since your last birthday you have taken approximately 15,768,000 breaths.
- The volume of blood in your body is approximately 5 litres. The heart pumps about 280 litres of blood around your body every hour - that’s 2,688,000 litres per year!
- The average garden snail (not one that has entered the Olympics 100 meters race) moves at around 0.03 mph. If one set out on your last birthday, and it walked non-stop it would have traveled 263 miles. If you walked this distance non-stop you would complete it in around three days.
- Since your last birthday you will have had about 1,460 dreams.
- World population has grown by around 76,570,430 since your last birthday. In the time it takes you to read this another five babies will have been born.
- During the past year there have been more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world.
- The Earth is zooming around the sun at around 66,780 miles per hour! Since your last birthday the Earth has completed one journey around the sun travelling about 584,337,600 miles.
- If you counted 24 hours a day, you would be over 31,000 years old when you reach one trillion!
1 comment:
Neat facts, and Happy Birthday to Samuel! Wow, I can hardly believe that he is 11!!
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