14 fascinating things that will happen in the next 60 seconds

Your heart is always working overtime. In fact, it pumps about 2.273 litres of blood per minute, which is equal to about 9,092 litres each day, according to arheart.com. Keeping your heart at its healthiest could be as easy as following these health rules.

In just one minute, 144 people will be packing up their belongings and moving it all to a new home. In fact, “Eight per cent of the world’s adults – roughly 381 million people – say they have moved from one city or area within their country to another in the past five years,” according to news.gallup.com. That’s a whole lot of stressed out people. If you’re relocating to a new home, try these ideas to help reduce your stress on moving day.

“The gross approximation is about 4 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or greater in the world every 60 seconds,” according to Lisa A. Wald, science communications, web content manager, and geophysicist for USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center. “Most earthquakes occur along the boundaries of the tectonic plates.”

In 60 seconds, the world will consume 5.2 million kilograms of food. In comparison, during that same minute, the world will also waste about 2.5 million kilograms of food.

“Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year,” according to dosomething.org. So, if we cut that down to minutes, that’s 430,000 kilograms of garbage tossed away each minute in the United States. Increasingly empty water bottles add to this huge amount of garbage. Here are some surprising facts about bottled water.

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Source: RD.com