Amazon sold enough HDMI cables during the holidays to make 3 round trips to the International Space Station.
It’s no secret that Amazon sells a lot of stuff. As we switch our purchasing habits more and more to the online world, Amazon’s eyepopping sales grow. For the 2012 shopping season, Amazon says they sold over 26.5 million items, or 306 items per second. They have a list of fun facts about what they sold. Check out some below, and go to the source to see even more:
- If each customer that purchased a copy of Just Dance 4 played the game for one hour, the total number of calories burned would equal half a million slices of fruitcake.
- Amazon customers purchased enough TVs to cover the field of every NFL stadium.
- Amazon customers purchased enough vinyl copies of The Beatles albums that if laid flat would extend 20 times the length of Abbey Road in London.
- The Amazon MP3 store has sold enough music for everyone at Woodstock ’69 to jam out to another three days of music for peace and love.
- If you stacked every Christmas Story Leg Lamp purchased by Amazon customers this holiday season, the height would reach the top of Mt. Everest.