MUNDANE MYSTERIES: How many leaves fall every year?

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MUNDANE MYSTERIES: How many leaves fall every year?

The leaves are starting to turn and fall to the ground now that the fall season has officially started. But how many fall every year in the U.S.? It’s kind of impossible to know the exact number obviously but since we have the internet someone decided to ballpark it. They figured out that there are approximately 200 billion trees in the country, which have somewhere around 200,000 leaves each. So if you do the math that adds up to around 40 QUADRILLION leaves.  Again, not an official number, but close enough.

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