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  • The global life expectancy is 71.4 years.

  • But in the US it's a bit higher at 78.6.

  • This amounts to 28,689 days or 2,478,700,000 seconds alive on Earth.

  • So what can happen to you in that time?

  • You produce 0.4 millilitres of saliva per minute and 0.5 - 1 liter per day.

  • That means in a life time you can fill anywhere between 180 to 360 bath tubs full of spit.

  • Men cry an average of 1 time per month and women 2.7 times, giving you an average of 1,745 good cries per lifetime.

  • The average adult is not getting their 10,000 steps in as the average US adult only takes around 5,100 steps per day.

  • But in a lifetime it ends up being a pretty impressive 146 million steps.

  • If the average stride length is 0.71 metres then you'll walk around the length of the equator around 2.6 times.

  • Men are continually making new sperm producing 1 to 10 trillion sperm cells in a lifetime and people generally start having sex around age 16 to 17.

  • The baby boomers have had an average of 11 sexual partners but millennials are only expected to have around 8 sexual partners throughout their lives.

  • From the ages 20 to 60, it's estimated to learn 1 to 2 new words per day with an average total of 42 thousand words.

  • This number declines as we age and is likely related to our brain decaying at a rate of 5% per decade after the age of 40.

  • The average person 15 years or older in the US works 7.9 hours per day.

  • And with the average age of retirement being 63, you'll spend about 16 years in total at the office.

  • But are you really working or just looking at memes?

  • One study found that young adults use their phones 5 hours per day and check their phone in 30 second burst 85 times a day.

  • When you do the maths that adds up to almost 13 years on your phone.

  • That doesn't even include Netflix where subscribers spend upwards of 500 hours per year streaming content, which means at this rate you'd spend around 4.5 years watching Netflix.

  • In your lifetime you might be a millionaire with the average bachelor degree holder earning 1.8 million and those with a college degree earning 1.1 million.

  • Of your fortune alcohol consumption accounts for about 0.9% of annual income with 515 spent on alcohol per year.

  • Per day men sleep about 496.4 minutes and women sleep for 507.6 minutes on average, a statistically significant 11 minutes more than men which means more than a third of your life is spent snoozing.

  • But even when you're awake we spend 10% of our day with our eyes closed as the average person blink 28,800 times per day or 15 to 20 blinks per minute.

  • By the age of 30 you'll likely get the flu twice every decade.

  • The incidence may decrease as medicine continues to improve but may also increase because of the amount of time we spend indoors.

  • A study in the journal of nature found that we spend 87% of our lives indoors and 6% in a vehicle

  • The Earth, which you are currently standing on will travel 73 billion 8 hundred 84 million kilometres in your lifetime.

  • So no mater what happens, you've travelled billions of kilometres through space and that's pretty cool.

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The global life expectancy is 71.4 years.

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