The world is full of fascinating facts & statistics, but presented without context & in no particular order they can be overwhelming. Numberland: The World in Numbers interprets the world around us through numbers, breaking the most amazing & revealing of facts down to their bare bones. For example, did you know that the average eyelash lasts five months? That 400 quarter-pound hamburgers can be made out of one cow? Or that the average human will grow 590 miles of hair in their lifetime? Ordered in easily digestible sections such as ` Around the World`, `the USA`, ` Money`, ` Religion` & ` History`, the book navigates an ordered path through a noisy world of information overload.