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Fun fact -- 15,000+ aluminum cans are manufactured every second. Every. Second.

Really hope Bill keeps putting out videos, but I understand how life gets and it's not his full time job.

is that right? That would be something like 5 per day per person on earth.

Isn't it 5 persons per can?

right, oops

I think the number you were shooting for is 15k cans/second = roughly one can every 5 days for each person on the planet.

If it's off, it's likely less than an order of magnitude off. It's based on the numbers in the video, which he states as half a trillion cans a year from 2015. If anything, I'd guess the number is a touch low.

Well I just drank my daily 8 cans of Diet Pepsi.

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