Year Facts

The average person spends about 1 to 1.5 years of their life sitting on a toilet.

It would take approximately 177 years to drive a car to the sun at highway speeds.

Alligators can live up to 100 years.

Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 100 years in the wild, making them one of the longest-lived freshwater animals in North America. Scientists determine their age through growth rings on their shells and skeletal analysis.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)

The average person blinks between 5 and 7 million times a year—that's once every few seconds throughout your waking hours!

Snails can live up to 15 years.

More than 500,000 earthquakes occur throughout the world every year, though most are too small for humans to feel!

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

The average American eats about 14 pounds of cereal per year!

Oak trees can live 200 or more years.

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.

Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year!

7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.

If Earth's 4.5-billion-year history were compressed into one calendar year, modern humans (Homo sapiens) would appear at about 11:37 PM on December 31st—just 23 minutes before midnight.

The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.

In the Czech Republic, parents are entitled to up to 3 years of parental leave per child, with a flexible parental allowance that can be drawn over this period. For children with disabilities, additional support and extended care provisions are available.