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The 60-Second Encyclopedia & Minute Glass
Michael J. Rosen
The 60-Second Encyclopedia puts a whole new spin on math, science, nature, the human body, and popular culture
Workman Publishing Company
June 2005
306 pages ISBN: 0761129022 Hardcover
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Did you know? In just one minute the Earth travels 1,100
miles around the sun. Cartwheel champ Brianna Schroeder
turns 48 cartwheels. 28,824 photographs are taken (822 of
them at Disney World). Over $60,000 is spent on eBay. You
lose 8 brain cells, 40,000 skin cells, and one taste bud.
(How weird.) A ladybug flaps its wings 60,000 times.
6,805,555 e-mails are sent (35% of them Spam). Jean-Yves
Mulot breaks 42 flaming concrete blocks with his bare hand.
Whew! Filled with hundreds of incredible and true facts and
statistics, The 60-Second Encyclopedia puts a whole new
spin on math, science, nature, the human body, and popular
culture, too. And, with a one-minute sandglass packaged
with the book and dozens of interactive activities, readers
can test what they (or their hamster) can accomplish in the
same amount of time it takes "the wave" to move through
1,200 stadium seats. Or the amount of time advertisers paid
$4.6 million for during Super Bowl XXXVIII. In just one minute . . . • The Franklin Mint produces 36,458 coins. • Racehorses are halfway around the Kentucky Derby
racetrack. • Giant machines make over 6,000 feet of toilet paper. • 9 million telephones ring, and over 580,000 messages are
recorded on answering machines.
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