Minute Facts

About 250 babies are born worldwide every minute—that's roughly four new humans entering the world every single second.

It takes about eight minutes for light to travel from the Sun to Earth.

Within 20 minutes of smoking your last cigarette, your heart rate and blood pressure begin to drop toward normal levels.

The heart of a mouse beats 650 times per minute!

It takes approximately 8 minutes and 19 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth, traveling across 149.6 million kilometers of space.

A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

Over the whole Twilight saga, there are over 24 minutes of just staring.