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What is a Billion? Wrap Your Head Around This Number
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Here are some interesting facts to try and wrap your head around how big the number 1 billion really is:
| | One billion seconds is 31 years. |
| | About a billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was flourishing. (One billion minutes is roughly 1,900 years.) |
| | About a billion hours ago, modern human beings and their ancestors were living in the Stone Age (more precisely, the Middle Paleolithic). (One billion hours is roughly 114,000 years.) |
| | About a billion days ago, Australopithecus, an ape-like creature related to an ancestor of modern humans, roamed the African savannas. (One billion days is roughly 2.7 million years.) |
| | About a billion months ago, dinosaurs walked the earth during the late Cretaceous. (One billion months is roughly 82 million years.) |
| | About a billion years ago, the first multicellular organisms appeared on Earth. (The universe is now thought to be about 13.7 billion years old.) |
| | A billion centimeters is about the distance from Chicago, Illinois, USA to Tokyo, Japan. |
| | A billion inches is 15,783 miles, more than halfway around the world and sufficient to reach any point on the globe from any other point. |
| | A billion meters is almost three times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. |
| | A billion kilometers is over six times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. |
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