: Fun Facts

With all this talk about a million minutes, have you stopped to think about how long a million minutes is?

16,666.6 Hours
694.4 Days
99.2 Weeks
22.8 Months
1.9 Years

That’s a long time!

Do you know what the average person could do in the next million minutes?
  • Brush their teeth 333,333 times
  • Watch uninterrupted episodes of How I Met Your Mother 40,000 times
  • Listen to Katy Perry's Firework 264,312 times
  • Take 125,000 showers
  • Watch Mr. Popper's Penguins nearly 10,526 times
  • Burn over 5,133,000 calories ballroom dancing
  • Log on and check their account on Facebook 18,181 times



    • Other Million Minute Fun Facts:
  • Your heart beats over 69.4 million times in one million minutes
  • If you let your car idle for one million minutes, it would use 12,500 gallons of gas
  • The average person spends about a million minutes on the phone in their lifetime.
  • In one million minutes, over 113 billion aluminum cans are recycled
  • From first grade until early in your sophomore year in high school, you will have spent about 1 million minutes in school.
  • Recycling just 834 aluminum beverage cans would save enough energy to run a 100-Watt bulb for one million minutes
  • In only 18 months, two rats could have over one million descendents.
  • Elvis spent about 1 million minutes in the Army.
  • In one million minutes, about 141 trillion email messages are sent
  • From the time they are sworn in until their next election, Congress serve nearly 1 million minutes.
  • It takes Mars about a million minutes to orbit the Sun.


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