Billion Facts

More Monopoly money is printed each year than real US dollars. Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) prints about $30 billion in Monopoly money annually, while the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces around $500 million to $1 billion in new currency.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.

Most mammals, regardless of size, have hearts that beat approximately 1 billion times over their lifetime.

In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!

If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.

An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.

In the U.S., about 1% of lottery prizes go unclaimed each year - totaling over $2 billion in forgotten winnings!

Over 1 billion birds a year die from smashing into windows in the United States alone.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.

Approximately 1 billion Valentine's cards are exchanged each year when including school classroom exchanges, making Valentine's Day the second-largest card-sending occasion after Christmas.

GTA V achieved $1 billion in sales just 3 days after its launch.

Your body replaces about 3.8 million cells every second, totaling roughly 330 billion cells per day.

During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.

You will experience the billionth second of your life when you are 31 years old.

There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.

Americans spent over $147 billion on their pets in 2023, a figure that continues to rise annually, showcasing a deep and growing commitment to their animal companions.

India's richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a $1 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors with a capacity to hold up to 168 cars. 600 staff maintain the home.

Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago

As of 2014, Apple has enough money to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify combined - with $59 billion to spare!