EVERY SECOND : 100 LIGHTNING STRIKES, 8,000 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM, 200,000 TEXT MESSAGES, 3 MILLION LITRES OF COW BURPS ... AND OTHER INCREDIBLE THINGS THAT HAPPEN EACH SECOND AROUND THE WORLD SAVE25 intuitive and utterly kitchen-savvy

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EVERY SECOND : 100 LIGHTNING STRIKES, 8,000 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM, 200,000 TEXT MESSAGES, 3 MILLION LITRES OF COW BURPS ... AND OTHER INCREDIBLE THINGS THAT HAPPEN EACH SECOND AROUND THE WORLD SAVE25 intuitive and utterly kitchen-savvyThis striking portrait of our world in numbers makes statistics fun and accessible to children and their grown ups. Every second, somewhere across the globe, an aeroplane takes off and another one lands. Two people die, and four babies enter the world. 15,000 plastic bottles are produced and 1,600 are recycled. 8,000 scoops of ice cream are eaten, 200,000 text messages are sent. This book of remarkable facts, lushly illustrated with memorable