The time we spend sleeping is, by far, what consumes the most precious minutes of our lives: almost 24 years of sleep! More precisely, an average Brazilian spends 23 years, 9 months and 7 days of his life sleeping. This takes into account eight hours of sleep a day and life expectancy in the country, which, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), is currently 71.3 years. With a calculator in one hand and a bunch of statistics in the other, we did a lot of math to figure out how many hours, days, weeks, months and years we spend pooping, having orgasms and other activities. Stay on top of this curious relationship by reading these two pages without wasting time!
Urinating – 28 days and 5 hours
Going to the bathroom to get water off your knee will consume almost a month of your life. “On average, people urinate about four times a day”, says urologist Celso Marzano, from the Faculdade de Medicina do ABC. On each trip to the bathroom, you leave 200 to 300 ml of urine in the toilet
Pooping – 3 months and 4 days
No one poops the same amount and frequency, but the ideal average is that each one sits on the “throne” twice a day. “Normally, people evacuate about 12 hours after eating food”, says Celso Marzano. As this activity takes longer, we spend three times more time pooping than peeing
Having Orgasm – 9 hours and 56 minutes
According to the Sexuality Project at the Hospital das Clínicas at USP, Brazilians have sex three times a week, on average. That’s the good news. The bad thing is that the average duration of orgasm, according to research by the American biologist Alfred Kinsey, is a measly 4 seconds. Result: in your entire life, it’s less than ten hours of climax!
Cutting nails – 25 days and 18 hours
Apart from Zé do Caixão, everyone cuts their nails about once a week and spends about 10 minutes on it. “Hand nails grow 1 millimeter every 10 days, and toe nails, 1 millimeter every 20 days”, says dermatologist Jefferson Alfredo de Barros, from the ABC Medical School. Between one tec-tec and another, there goes a month of life.
Asleep – 23 years, 9 months and 7 days
Taking a bath – 3 months and 13 days
Having sex – 3 months and 3 days
Farting – 2 months
Masturbating – 33 days
Sneezing – 5 days and 20 hours
Studying – 1 year and 10 months
From preschool to college, it’s at least 16 years of daily study, warming up at the desk for five hours a day. As the school year (excluding vacations and holidays) lasts about 200 days, that’s 1,000 hours a year at school. If you didn’t flunk your math tests, you’ve noticed that we spend almost two years between one class and another.
In meetings – 7 months
It depends on the profession. If you’re the editor of Mundo Strange, for example, you’ll spend five hours every month on staff meetings, five more on meetings to define the infographics, and another two hours on magazine evaluation meetings. The 12 hours per month multiplied by 35 years (time to retirement) turns into seven months
Waiting for the elevator – 27 days and 2 hours
Those who live and work in buildings use the elevator at least six times a day: to go down from the house to the garage, to go up to work, to go to and from lunch, to leave work and to go back home. If it takes us 15 seconds waiting each time, that’s 90 seconds a day. At the end of life, almost a month planted on the ground floor or on your floor!
Having lunch at work – 10 months, 20 days and 19 hours
Reading and deleting emails – 7 months and 6 days
Doing Homework – 4 months and 13 days
Taking exams – 1 month, 23 days and 7 hours
At recess – 1 month and 14 days
Flirting at Work – 26 days and 16 hours
In the club – 7 months, 6 days and 14 hours
Who is not a professional clubber but likes to enjoy the night, go out at least twice a week and spend about five hours in the club. If you keep the pace from 15 to 25 years old, you’ll spend 7 months, 6 days and 14 hours in the gandaia – but nothing prevents you from going beyond that!
Reading ME – 1 month, 14 days and 9 hours
As everything that is good lasts little, you will spend only 44 days reading your ME — if you start at 12 years old and read until you are 71.3 years old (life expectancy of Brazilians). In this account, we considered that our reader takes 1 hour and a half to devour an issue — reading the texts cover to cover, but without traveling too far in the illustrations
Watching TV – 14 years and 6 months
Browsing the internet – 1 year, 5 months, 28 days
Eating pizza – 3 months and 13 days
Driving in traffic – 1 year, 5 months and 26 days
Those who live in small towns do not experience this annoyance, but those who live in a metropolis like São Paulo, for example, spend about 1 hour and 32 minutes a day commuting to and from work, according to a study by the local city hall. In 35 years of going to and from the office, a person from São Paulo will spend more than 1 year and 5 months in traffic
Waiting in queues – 4 years, 9 months and 18 days
Seeing commercials on TV – 2 years, 5 months and 18 days
Tidying up the room – 1 year and 12 days
Restarting the computer – 15 days and 14 hours
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