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1. http://jacob.efinke.com/bignumbers.html http://insectzoo.msstate.edu/Students/basic.numbers.html http://www.ieer.org/clssroom/scinote.html • The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. • More than 15,000,000,000 prizes have been given away in Cracker Jack's boxes. • The human body contains 70,000 miles of blood vessels. • Due to very high inflation, in the 1920s 1 American dollar = 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marcs. • The average person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in their life. • Americans eat 250,000 lbs. of lobster every day. • America spends $300,000,000 on clothes per day. • There are more than 800,000 species of insects in the world. • The average American high school graduate's vocabulary contains 60,000 words. • There are about 8,000,000 words in the English language. • The smallest insect known is a fairyfly, a parasitic wasp which occurs on the island of Guadeloupe. This wasp measures 0.007 inch long and is small enough to fly through the eye of a needle. • The smallest beetle is a feather-winged beetle, Nanosella fungi (family Ptiliidae). This beetle, which feeds on spores of fungi, measures 0.01 inch long. • In chemistry, one a.m.u. (the weight of one atomic mass unit)= 0.00000000000000000000000000166 kilograms. • On the other hand, the weight of an alpha particle, which is emitted in the radioactive decay of Plutonium-239, is 0.000000000000000000000000006645 kilograms. • An electron's mass is about 0.00000000000000000000000000000091093822 kg