: 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?
  • Have 33,333 pizzas delivered one right after the other.
  • Sit in the waiting room at 21,277 different doctor offices.
  • Blink over 20 million times.
  • Fly non-stop from LAX to Sydney, Australia 1,149 times.
  • Make about 2,280 phone calls.
  • Watch the movie Transformers 7,143 times.
  • Roast 4,166 20-pound turkeys.
  • Listen to the Beatles’ White Album 10,676 times.
  • Other Million Minute Fun Facts:
  • A bat's heart beats 500,000,000 beats in one million minutes.
  • The outer layer of the skin sheds itself at a rate of a million cells every 40 minutes.
  • The average person spends about a million minutes on the phone in their lifetime.
  • From first grade until early in your sophomore year in high school, you will have spent about 1 million minutes in school.
  • You could drive across the state of South Dakota and back 1,190 times in a million minutes.
  • Elvis spent about 1 million minutes in the Army.
  • From the time they are sworn in until their next election, Congressmen serve nearly 1 million minutes.
  • The entire Watergate scandal, from break-in to resignation, lasted just over 1 million minutes.
  • It takes Mars about a million minutes to orbit the Sun.


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