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The 60-Second Encyclopedia & Minute Glass, June 2005
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THE 60-SECOND ENCYCLOPEDIA & MINUTE GLASS
By: 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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