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50 It’s not so big, after all.
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50 millimeters =
1/36,576th of the depth of the deepest portion of the Grand Canyon
(1,828,800 millimeters)
50 kilometers per hour =
1/552th of the velocity of the International Space Station
(27,600 kilometers per hour)
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50 hairs =
1/2,000th of the number of hairs found on an average human head
(100,000 hairs)
50 square miles =
1/108,000th of the area covered by the Antarctic Ice Sheet
(5,400,000 square miles)
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50 adobe bricks =
1/2,600,000th of the number used to construct the Huaca del Sol
(130,000,000 adobe bricks)
50 centimeters =
1/5,800,000th of the thickness of the Earth’s mantle
(290,000,000 centimeters)
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50 pints =
1/60,000th of the number of pints brewed each day at the St. James’s Gate Brewery
(3,000,000 pints)
50 kilometers =
1/798,000,000,000th of the distance to Proxima Centauri (39,900,000,000,000 kilometers)
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50 days =
1/36,960th of the age of the oldest Great Basin Bristlecone Pine
(1,847,995 days)
50 tons =
1/17,890th of the original weight of the Golden Gate Bridge
(894,500 tons)
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50 eggs =
1/1,563,328,200th of the number of eggs consumed in the US in 2012
(78,166,410,000 eggs)
50 cubic feet of water =
1/3,473,871,667,200th of the volume of Lake Michigan
(173,693,583,360,000 cubic feet of water)
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50 yards =
1/28,498th of the number of yards of bookshelves at the Library of Congress
(1,474,880 yards)
50 pounds-force =
1/30,440th of the amount of thrust generated by a Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine
(1,522,000 pounds-force)
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50 individuals =
1/125,052th
of the number of individuals without health insurance in Texas (6,252,600 individuals)
50 meters =
1/2,796,440th of the diameter of Jupiter
(139,822,000 meters)
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50 liters =
1/687,344th of the amount of wine consumed globally in 2011
(24,367,197 liters)
50 hours =
1/31,886th of the estimated age of Jonathan, a Seychelles Giant Tortoise
(1,594,320 hours)
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50 vehicle miles =
1/5,272,000,000th of the vehicle miles driven in the US in July, 2013
(263,600,000,000 vehicle miles)
50 inches =
1/8,688th of the depth of Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the ocean
(434,400 inches)
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50 windows =
1/487th of the number of windows on the Burj Khalifa
(24,348 windows)
50 hectares =
1/679,872th of the land comprising the US National Park System
(33,993,594 hectares)
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50 kilograms =
1/8,960th of the maximum takeoff weight for a Boeing 747-8F
(448,000 kilograms)
50 bacteria =
1/2,000,000,000,000th of the number of bacteria found in an average human body
(100,000,000,000,000 bacteria)
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50 stars =
1/60,000,000,000th of the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy
(300,000,000,000 stars)
50 seconds =
1/1,080th of the length of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
(54,000 seconds)
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50 acre-feet =
1/578,900th of the volume of Lake Mead
(28,945,000 acre-feet)
50 frames =
1/3,427th of the number of frames in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane
(171,360 frames)
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50 weeks =
1/5,215th of the total time elapsed since construction commenced at Stonehenge
(260,728 weeks)
50 years =
1/276,000,000th of the estimated age of the Universe
(13,800,000,000 years)
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50 microns =
1/15,260th of the circumference of a size 7 basketball
(762,000 microns)
50 entries =
1/4,563th of the number of entries in the 2nd Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
(228,132 entries)
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50 specimens =
1/2,520,000th of the number collected by the National Museum of Natural History
(126,000,000 specimens)
50 words =
1/25,341th of the total word count for Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
(1,267,069 words)
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50 LEGO bricks =
1/914,000,000th of the number produced in 2012 (45,700,000,000 LEGO bricks)
50 yuan =
1/200,000,000th of the construction cost of the Shanghai Maglev Train
(10,000,000,000 yuan)
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50 gallons =
1/340,000,000,000th of the amount of water contained in Chesapeake Bay
(17,000,000,000,000 gallons)
50 pounds =
1/382,000th of the weight of the Space Needle
(19,100,000 pounds)
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50 iPhones =
1/300,000th of the number of iPhones sold by Apple in 2013
(150,000,000 iPhones)
50 barrels =
1/177,800th of the amount of petroleum products consumed daily in the US
(8,890,000 barrels)
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50 feet =
1/422,400th of the length of the Amazon River
(21,120,000 feet)
50 babies =
1/79,988th of the number born in the US in 2010
(3,999,386 babies)
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50 base pairs =
1/60,000,000th of the complete human genome
(3,000,000,000 base pairs)
50 light years =
1/200,000,000th of the distance to supernova SN UDS10Wil
(10,000,000,000 light years)
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50 cups of tea =
1/1,204,000,000th of the number consumed annually in the UK
(60,200,000,000 cups of tea)
50 minutes =
1/253,507,418th of the half-life of Plutonium-239
(12,675,370,900 minutes)
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50 rods =
1/67,245th of the distance between London and Melbourne
(3,362,240 rods)
50 dollars =
1/350,428,356,601th of the amount of the current US public debt
(17,521,417,830,074 dollars)
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50 miles per hour =
1/781th of the current speed of Voyager 1
(39,057 miles per hour)
50 patents =
1/174,868th of the number issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office through 2011
(8,743,423 patents)
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SEE?
Collected, Calculated, and Curated by Jeff Stvan in Honor of Max Sims’ 50th Birthday