Your Optimise magazine is one year old! We have packed a lot of advice, news and expert views into the past four issues, which got us thinking, what else can you cram into a year?

Here are ten other things that can, may, or already have happened over twelve months.

You can grow old on the planet Uranus, as one year there is equivalent to 30,708 days or 84 years on earth.
In one year, one single cow, gives off enough harmful methane gas to fill 140,800 litre bottles. What a stinker!
Five billion apples are eaten in the UK every year, with the most popular being Granny Smiths.
The average person tells 1,408 lies over a 12 month period, that's four porkers per day. We promise you that this fact isn't one of them!
Eating one packet of crisps a day is the equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year. Fat's disgusting!
In one year, Arctic ice has declined by 14%. That is an area the size of Turkey.
An estimated four trillion cigarette butts are discarded on Britain’s streets each year, according to the BBC. How do they know that?
UK customs officers foil around 52,800 attempts to smuggle live birds and animals into the country each year.
Dolphins swim 17,600 miles a year and are believed to be navigating by the Earth’s magnetic field.
You can count to 31,536,000, the number of seconds in a common year, also comprising of 525,600 minutes or 8,760 hours. Who says time flies when you are having fun?

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