Odd Facts...

Here are some of the entries from the book Durations: The Encyclopedia of How Long Things Take by Stuart A. Sandow
It takes 0.003 seconds for a housefly's wings to beat one stroke.
It takes 1 second for the the wings of a small hummingbird to beat seventy times.
It takes 1 second for the human eye to focus to to five times.
It takes 2 to 3 seconds for gray squirrels to copulate.
It takes 15 seconds for bees to communicate by dancing.
It takes 20 seconds for a cloud to recharge after lightning flashes.
It takes 1 minute for the Green Giant to flash-freeze vegetables.
It takes 1 minute for a blue shark to swim a mile.
It takes 2 minutes for a giraffe to run a mile.
It takes 5 minutes to make Minute rice.
It takes 10 minutes for a snowflake to form.
It takes 15 minutes to dig a grave using mechanized equipment.
It takes 30 minutes for aspirin to be absorbed into the bloodstream.
It takes 5 hours to make a loaf of Wonder bread.
It takes 10 hours to make a full set of false teeth.
It takes 16 hours for a ring kingfisher to incubate her eggs at one sitting.
It takes 1 day for a pair of house wrens to feed their young 1,117 times.
It takes 1 day for a supernova to release as much energy as the sun produces in a billion years.
It takes 30 years for a termite to complete its life span.
It takes 100 years for tidal friction to slow the earth’s rotation by 14 seconds.
It takes 500 years for Oxford to admit women into its degree program.
It takes 1,000 years for an average redwood tree to complete its life span.
It takes 100,000 years for light to travel across our galaxy.
It takes 1 million years for the Colorado river to carve the Grand Canyon.
It takes 100 million years for a neutron star to cool.
It takes 1 billion years for coal to form.