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Here are 10 amazing facts about the things that people around the world are buying in large quantities. You have to compare!

1. "Coca-Cola»
Every day in the world sold 1, 8 billion bottles of soda. In the world of 7 billion people. So every two people from eight or a quarter of the world's population drinks it every day.





2. Chips Lay's
Only in the United States 633 million packets purchased annually. True fact, when you take a pack up, it seems that it is half empty and weighs nothing? In fact, in such a quantity they are heavier than the carrier.



3. PlayStation
Since 1995, it sold 344 million game consoles. By weight it as two Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. But this is Landmark for many years was considered the largest suspension bridge in the world.



4. Toyota Corolla
Since 1966, it has sold 40, 7 million of these cars. If you line them up in a series of bumper to bumper, you get 48 rows across America - from New York to Los Angeles and back.



5. iPad
Since 2010, it sold out 211 million tablets Apple. Putting them near the long side to each other, you can circle the entire Earth.



6. Angry Birds
The number of downloads of online games has exceeded 2 billion. Suppose one person downloaded it once - then it turns out that a third of the world's population is keen battle birds to pigs.



7. Michael Jackson's album «Thriller»
Since 1982, it sold 70 million copies. It is 15 times more than the staggering sales of their debut album One Direction, through which the group has become super popular in the world.



8. Books Harry Potter
Since 1997, with bookshelves swept away 450 million copies. This is 90% of all books in the world, sold in 2013.



9. iPhone
Since 2007, Apple smartphones dispersed "edition" 516 million copies. That's more than the population of the European Union.



10. Rubik's Cube
Since 1980, 350 million sold. It is 35 times more than the population of Hungary, where I came from this famous puzzle.