BIG NUMBERS

- The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- The average American drinks 600 sodas a year.
- More than 15,000,000,000 prizes have been given away in Cracker Jack's boxes.
- In the year 1990 there were 15,000 vaccuum cleaner related accidents.
- There are 50,000 earthquakes a year.
- In 1993 there were approximately 64,000,000 cats in America.
- The human body contains 70,000 miles of blood vessels.
- Because of 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.
- Proportionally, if a flea were a person, that person could jump 1,000 feet high.
- America spends $300,000,000 on clothes per day.
- The average American high school graduate's vocabulary contains 60,000 words.
- The largest shadow, cast by a mountain on the canary island, is 200 miles long.
- If you drop a penny of the Empire State Building it would go about 106 MPH.
- In a study of 200,000 ostriches for a period of over 80 years not once did an ostrich stick its head in the sand.
- There were 100 zeroes on this page; now it's 102; now 103; now 104...