14 Mind Blowing Facts About McDonald's

1. According to company estimates, one in every eight American workers has been employed by McDonald's.

2. Americans alone consume one billion pounds of beef at McDonald's in a year.

3. Back in 1968 McDonald airlifted hamburgers to homesick U.S. Olympic Athletes in France.

4. From 2011 to 2013, McDonald's plans to open one restaurant every day in China.

5. McDonald's' $27 billion in revenue makes it the 90th-largest economy in the world.

6. McDonald's' daily customer traffic (62 million) is more than the population of Great Britain.

7. McDonald's has 761,000 employees worldwide, that's more than the population of Luxembourg.

8. McDonald's hires around 1 million workers in the US every year.

9. McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys. They distribute over 1.5 billion a year.

10. McDonald's sells over 75 hamburgers every second.

11. Sharon Stone, Shania Twain, Jay Leno, Rachel McAdams and Pink all worked at McDonald's before they were famous.

12. McDonald's delivers in 18 countries.

13. The $8.7 billion in revenue from franchise stores alone, makes McDonald's richer than Mongolia .

14. The only place in the lower 48 that is more than 100 miles from a McDonald's is a barren plain in South Dakota.