every single person you meet...

[givememyleg]

There are more molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world's oceans combined.

love stuff like this. another amazing one is the shannon number which describes the varying possibilities of outcomes in a game of chess. if you were to take a guess at how many different outcomes are possible, what would it be? over/under on 10 trillion? i took the under, but the answer is actually pretty damn fascinating: the number is so large that it outnumbers the total number of atoms in the entire observable universe. (10^123 vs 10^80)

[Poopadoop]

love stuff like this. another amazing one is the shannon number which describes the varying possibilities of outcomes in a game of chess. if you were to take a guess at how many different outcomes are possible, what would it be? over/under on 10 trillion? i took the under, but the answer is actually pretty damn fascinating: the number is so large that it outnumbers the total number of atoms in the entire observable universe. (10^123 vs 10^80)

Very cool. Here's another: If the Earth were the size of a grain of sand the Sun would be the size of a tennis ball 25 feet away. And that tennis ball would produce enough heat to warm the grain of sand by a dozen or so degrees for billions of years.