Where does the word minute comes from? Is it originally an English word? The word “minute” actually originated from the Babylonians when they divided dusk and dawn into twelve equal parts.These parts were back then known as hours. Around the 1600s-1700s, clocks divided these hours into smaller parts called minutes.Besides time, minute (pronounced mai-newt) also means very small in size.

For example, “He took a minute amount of food.” However, most of the time, we often refer to minute (mee-nit).There could be many things happening in just one minute.For example, in the used-to-be planet Pluto, one minute means ~247.5 minutes on Earth. That means if you were late for one minute in Pluto, that was like ~5 minutes late on Earth.

Now, lets talk about a minute in our daily activites.It was found out that an average human blinks about 15 times in one minute because a blink lasts for about 100-150 milliseconds. Whenever we blink our eyes, oxygen is allowed to enter the eyes to regulate the mositure in our cornea ( a part in our eyes).

We all do sweat everyday, and as an adult, we produces two-thirds of a cup of sweat in every minute during heavy exercise without we realising them. That’s possible because our body contains about 2.32 million of sweat glands and men has more of them than women. So, that’s no wonder men sweat more than women do.