850,000 fireworks / 40 minutes = 21,250 fireworks per minute.
That's 354 per second.
But who could prove they're lying, if the whole sky looks like one giant lightbulb behind a thick cloud of smoke, and it's all backed by a 40-minute cacophany of indistinguishable noise?
The smog will be epic.
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