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The chocolate industry is worth approximately $110 billion per year.

In 1991, a chocolate model ship was made in Barcelona measuring approximately 42.5ft long, 28ft tall and 8ft wide.

It is also the world's largest private employer with approximately 2.2 million employees.

It is estimated that approximately 18% of the food stamps used in the United States are spent at Walmart.

This equals approximately $13 billion.

Approximately 44% of the population in the United States shop at Walmart each year.

Approximately 90% or more of the stores go by other names such as Todo Dia, Trust-Mart, Hypermart, or Bodega Aurrera.

A CEO at Walmart makes approximately 1,034 times more money than an average Walmart employee.

On average, a severe thunderstorm can produce approximately 6,000 lightning strikes every minute.

The Caloris Basin is the largest impact crater on Mercury covering approximately 1,550 km in diameter and was discovered in 1974 by the Mariner 10 probe.

The city and empire flourished from approximately the 9th to the 15th centuries.

It extends over approximately 400 square kilometres and consists of scores of temples, hydraulic structures (basins, dykes, reservoirs, canals) as well as communication routes.

For a regular horse, their top speed is approximately 27 miles per hour, although the fastest horse ever recorded could reach 55 miles per hour!

Approximately 350,000 Tweets are posted every minute.

Halong Bay is approximately 579 square miles in size and is home to approximately 1600 fishermen who live in floating villages.

With many more sheep than humans, there are approximately 100 million of these animals across the country.