Hello ,

A minute is a small amount of time. It's long enough to notice, but it's too short to do much of anything with. There are only about five hundred thousand of them in a year. But when you add all of humanity together, a lot starts to happen in that lowly minute. Consider what happens before the second hand of a clock completes one rotation:

• 25 Americans will get a passport, according to the U.S. Department of State.
• 58 airplanes will take off around the world, according to the International Air Traffic Association.
• 116 people will get married, according to data from the United Nations.
• 144 people will move to a new home, according to Gallup.
• 11,319 packages will be delivered by UPS.
• 243,000 photos will be uploaded to Facebook.
• 5,441,400 pounds of garbage will be created, according to the World Bank.
• 7,150,000,000 human hearts (according to the United States Census Bureau) will beat ... 500,500,000,000 times, according to the American Heart Association, as their bodies create ... 858,282,240,000,000,000 new red blood cells, according to the National Institutes of Health.*