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How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?
2
What is pi to the power of 9?
4
How many pounds of rice were consumed by people living in the U.S. last year?
10
How many board game dice does it take to equal the mass of the average human?
4
What number of tennis balls would you have to lay on the surface area of an Olympic-sized swimming pool in order to fully cover it?
5
How much trash (in pounds) does the average family produce in a year?
3
What volume of air (in Liters) do you breathe in one day?
3
How many hairs are on the average human head (that actually has hair!)
5
If we could brew coffee in swimming pools, how many pools would we need to satisfy the need in the U.S. on a given day?
2
How many pennies would it take to make a stack the height of the Empire State Building?
5
How many red blood cells does one person have?
13
How many atoms are in one human?
28
What is the surface area of the average human's skin in km^2?
-9
How many cases of fraud and identity theft are there per year in the United States, as reported by the US Federal Trade Commission?
7
How many pinapples weight 1 ton?
3
How many times more would a 50 foot tall pine tree weigh compared to an apple?
4
By IRS estimates, what percentage of people that evade taxes in some form get caught and convicted for doing so?
-2
How many individuals are incarcerated in prison at any given point in the US?
6
What is the annual cost in USD of incarcerating one person for one year in NYC?
6
How much would a cubic meter of dirt weigh, in milligrams?
9
How many prisoners break out of State or Federal prisons each year?
3
How many gallons of air are breathed in with one breath at rest?
-1
How many grass blades are in contact with one foot stepping on grass?
3
How many gigameters are between NYC and Paris?
-2
How many ways are there to make change for a dollar?
2
What is 43^29?
47
Given: log(e) = .4342944. What is 10,000 factorial?
35659
What is the 250th fibonacci number divided by the 50th fibonacci number?
42
What is 10^(10^(10^(10^-100)))?
10
How many cans of SpaghettiOs does it take to have enough letters to rewrite the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy?
4
If I can read a book a day, how many picoseconds would it take for me to read every book that has ever been published?
25
How many languages are currently spoken in the world?
4
If you guess the same valid Wordle word every single day (assuming all valid words occur in equal frequency and can repeat), how many centuries would it take until you have a >50% chance of getting a Wordle in one?
-2
How long, in light-feet, has the earth existed for?
26
How large is the surface area of the United States in Barns (unit, not building)?
41
In the duration of the Black Plague pandemic, how many humans died per year globally?
7
The cubit is the first known unit of length used by ancient humans, while the Planck units were very recent, first originating in 1899. How many Planck lengths long is one typical cubit?
34
How many years ago did Homo sapiens originate?
5
How many molecules of ATP are used by an average adult over the period of a fortnight?
27
If earth is replaced by an equivalent mass of swiss cheese, what is the new acceleration due to gravity (g)?
0
If all of the energy from a type Ia supernova was pumped into the ice in Antarctica, what would be the final temperature of the ice in Kelvin?
21
How many milligrams of nitrogen are biologically fixed every year?
17
The probability of winning the Powerball lotto is 1/292,201,338 per play. How many dollars would you have to spend to buy enough tickets so that you are more likely to have won the powerball 10 times in a row than to not have won 10 times in a row?
85
What is the wingspan of the largest gull species, the great black-backed gull, in angstroms?
10
How long is the egg incubation time of a gull, in days?
1
In the time that Laridae, the family of seabirds including gulls, have existed on Earth, how many kilometers could an immortal seagull travel, flying nonstop at its top speed?
13
How many birds live on Earth?
10
How many bird species are there?
4
If all of the polar bears on Earth fought all of the penguins on Earth, how many penguins would each polar bear have to take down for there to be no penguins left at the end of the battle?
3
How much has seabird poop been estimated to be worth annually, in dollars?
9
If you laid out all the toilet paper bought by New York City (the city government, not the population) in a year, how long would the line be, in kilometers?
5
How many toilet paper squares would be needed to cover the entirety of the U.S.interstate highway system?
12
How large is the annual revenue of Charmin Ultra Soft, expressed in terms of the annual GDP of Tuvalu?
1
How many olympic-sized swimming pools could be filled by all the water used annually to produce toilet paper in the U.S.?
6
If all the energy used annually to produce toilet paper in the U.S. was used to power a Tesla Model 3, how far, in kilometers, could it go?
11
Suppose you tp Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 200 million dollar mansion. How much will you get charged by the state of California for (the felony form of) vandalism in USD?
5
What was Live Nation Entertainment’s concert revenue in 2022?
10
How many notes are played by the pianist in Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto?
4
How many times does the letter “a” appear in the 1605 novel Don Quixote?
5
How many seconds long are the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven?
5
How many words are on the Wikipedia page for “Trombone”?
4
How many horses’ worth of blood could the surviving Stradivarius violins today store?
1
How many more units did the video game Metal Gear Solid (1998) sell than Deus Ex (2000) by 2001?
7
Between 2019 and 2020, by how much USD did the revenue of the North American box office fall?
10
How many lightning strikes occur in Florida every year?
6
How many ash trees in North America are threatened by the invasive emerald ash borer?
10
How many hectares of land in Australia are arable?
7
How many kilojoules are in 100 grams of black walnuts?
3
How many Saturns could fit into Earth’s moon?
-5
What is the size of the Maldives in square centimeters?
12
According to present scientific consensus, how many species of fish are there on Earth?
4
What year (AD) did Constantine become the new seat of the government in the Roman Empire?
2
How many minutes have you lived?
7
The 1936 Berlin Olympics Stadium was later used as a bunker by Nazis during WWII. How many people could it hold?
5
How many standing lighthouses remain in America?
3
Consider the amount of time that Steam users logged in 2020 playing video games. If Joel spends that entire amount of time calculating the digits of pi, given the formula of the average time to calculate the nth digit of pi in weeks = n^(1/2), how many digits would he manage to calculate? (He’s not the fastest at calculating these digits).
6
How many more bicycles are in China than in London?
8
As of 2021, how many answers have been provided on Stack Overflow, the largest coding Q&A site?
7
What is the 100th Fibonacci number?
20
How many happy numbers occur from 0 to 1,000,000? A happy number is defined as one where by continuously summing the squares of the digits, one eventually arrives at For example, 13 is happy, because 1^2 + 3^2 = 10, and 1^2 + 0^2 = 1. Assume base 10.
5
How many full size computer keyboards would it take to match every key from every keyboard to a key for every house in the US?
6
How many hydrogen atoms would be in a sphere of water the size of the moon?
24
How many standard water bottles’ worth of liquid would it take to fill up Lake Mead to full capacity?
14
What is 20 * 69!
99
What would be the mass of a planet, in Daltons, the same size as Earth which generates 4g of gravity?
52
How many M&M’s would it take to recoup the cumulative energy used by all the marathon runners in this year’s Boston marathon?
7
How much dissolved oxygen, in nanograms, is present in enough tap water to cover Manhattan 1 meter deep?
17
How many red blood cells would fit inside the Sun?
43
Recall that an electron needs energy to move from one energy level to another in an atom. How many leaps from the ground state to the first excited state of an electron in a neutral hydrogen atom could be powered by the energy usage of an average US household?
28
How many centaurs would span the distance from Earth to Proxima Centauri, assuming that centaurs would be the same size as a horse?
16
How many seconds apart were the completion of the Pyramid of Giza and the Colosseum?
11
How long, in decades, would it take for light to complete the famous Cannonball Run challenge (Red Ball Garage in NY to Portofino Hotel in LA)?
-11
What is the major axis diameter of Neptune’s orbit in picas?
20
How many Interstate highway dashed lines would it take to connect K2 to Mauna Kea?
6
How many individual doses of the COVID-19 booster vaccine would be needed to create a column of liquid that is 5 m in diameter to the ISS?
13
How long is the longest aircraft carrier in buckyballs (buckminsterfullerene)?
11
How many wavelengths of violet visible light exist between the Sun and Neptune, at their average distance apart?
24
If all corn produced yearly worldwide were distributed equally to all the blue whales on Earth, how much would each blue whale weigh, in lb, carrying their assigned amount of corn?
8
How long, in Planck time, would it take to move across the length of the universe at the speed of light?
61
How many centuries would it take for Usain Bolt to run a light-second while running at his 100m world record pace?
-2
If everyone in the world were to stand side-by-side (shoulder to shoulder with no gaps) to form a circle, what would be the diameter of the circle, in human hairs?
16
How many leagues under the sea is the center of the Earth?
3
How heavy is the combined weight of the UGA football team, in cricket balls?
5
How many houseflies’ worth of lift would you need to lift a school bus?
9
How much paraffin wax, in oz, would be needed to power a hot air balloon for a week (ignore the energy needed to carry the weight of the wax itself)?
5
How many Earths, placed side-by-side, would it take to stretch across the Milky Way Galaxy?
14
How many volleyballs would fit in Lake Erie?
14
What is 7^17?
14
What is 13^46?
51
How many total legs would there be in a great hundred dogs plus a score of cats?
3
How many honey bees are there in the world?
12
How long, in minutes, would it take the average person to type Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?
3
How many days ago did John Hancock “John Hancock” the Declaration of Independence?
5
If the entire US population stood in a socially-distanced line, howmany millimeters would it stretch?
12
What is the land area of Earth in hectares?
7
How many runs have been scored in the history of Major League Baseball?
6
How many grains of rice are in a 10 kilogram bag of rice?
5
What are the odds of getting heads on 12 consecutive flips of astandard quarter?
-4
How many Earths does a single water molecule weigh?
-51
How tall was Robert Pershing Wadlow, the tallest known human inhistory, in attometers?
18
What is the weight of an average male Asian elephant, measured in average adult American men?
2
If every fish on earth was being hunted by every cat on earth, how many cats would there be per fish?
-4
How many text characters are in the content pages of Wikipedia?
10
How much electricity was used globally in 2022, in picojoules?
32
How many regular M&Ms would fit inside the sun? Assume the M&Ms do not melt or stick together.
27
How many standard lab goggles would it take to equal the weight of a full-grown adult blue whale?
6
How many grains of sand are there on the beaches and deserts on Earth?
19
How many days would it take Usain Bolt to run the average distance from the Earth to the moon and back, assuming he runs continuously and at world-record pace the entire time?
3
What is the brightness of the sun, in lumens?
28
How many fortnights ago did dinosaurs become extinct?
9
How many replacement passenger automobile tires are sold in the US every year?
8
How many faces are there on a rhombicosidodecahedron?
2
How many standard Oreos placed flat, side by side, would it take to circle the earth at the equator?
9
How many pizzas are ordered in the US every year on Super Bowl Sunday?
7
How long would it take a person walking at average human walking speed to travel the distance from NYC to LA?
3
How much water goes over Niagara Falls every year, in teraliters?
2
What is 78^42?
79
What is the annual revenue (in USD) of Cracker Barrel in 2022?
9
How many Google searches are done every day?
10
About how many pounds of corn are grown and harvested in Indiana each year?
10
If you froze all the freshwater (include all sources, not just surface lakes, ponds, etc.) on Earth into an ice cube, what would the side length of the cube be in meters?
5
Directly after worldwide release, how many seconds did J.K. Rowling have to wait until she sold enough copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to be able to stack them to the International Space Station?
5
How many seconds would it take your voice to travel the equivalent distance from the Earth’s surface to the moon?
6
Intel 4004 was the first ever commercially produced microprocessor. How many times more transistors are on the new Apple M2 chip, compared to the Intel 4004 chip?
7
How many times hotter is the hottest capsaicinoid compared to the hottest jalapeno peppers, on the scoville scale?
6
How many days would it take to watch all of Netflix (assume Netflix US)?
3
How many megabytes of data would it take to stream all of Netflix (assume Netflix US) in HD?
8
On average, how many hours would it take for you to listen to all of the songs Spotify adds to its collection in a single day?
3
How many Kahoot sets have been created since the inception of the site?
8
Across all Wikipedia articles, how many hyperlinks are there to the “United States” Wikipedia page?
5
What is the global bubble tea market value, in New Taiwan Dollars?
11
How many miles do all NYC taxi cabs drive in a day, cumulatively?
6
How many windows are in NYC?
8
In 2022, how many shells were set off for “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks” celebration?
4
How many genes does a fruit fly have?
4
How many molecules of sugar are there in a 12 oz. Mexican Coca Cola bottle?
23
Assuming that an iPhone 14 has a 3000 mAh battery that is rated at 3.7 volts, how many more kilograms does an iPhone 14 weigh when fully charged, compared to when its battery is completely empty, all else equal?
-13
What is 3^3^3?
13
What is the ten millionth prime number?
8
During the 2019 Super Bowl, how many seconds were spent by consumers watching Super Bowl ads on YouTube?
9
Since the beginning of the American Music Awards, of all of the “Artist of the Year” winners, how many times has the letter “A” appeared (First and Last Names both count)? Example: Camila Cabello has the letter “A” 3 times.
1
How long would it take, in hours, to drive to Jupiter assuming it was a straight path and the person never had to stop in hours?
7
How much would it cost in US dollars to treat someone with Zynteglo, an FDA approved gene therapy drug to treat beta thalassemia?
6
How many times was COVID, COVID-19, or coronavirus mentioned in 2022 on Reddit?
8
How many rolls of toilet paper would fit inside Buckingham Palace assuming Buckingham Palace were a box and the toilet paper left no gaps between rolls (the tube hole still exists)?
8
What is the number of oxygen atoms in the carbonation of a can of Coca-Cola?
23
How much caffeine does the average college student consume per day in picograms?
11
If I search “foreign” in PubMed, a medical journal database, how many results show up?
5
If I planted an avocado pit and tended to it, assuming it could grow infinitely large, how long would it take to grow to the height of the General Sherman Tree in days?
2
During an Ironman marathon, the average male marathoner burns how many calories in terms of the number of avocado toast servings?
1
If all students on UM’s Ann Arbor campus shouted, how loud would the sound be equivalent to the sound produced in decibels?
2
How long, in seconds, would it take a golf ball hit by a professional golfer with a five-iron on average to travel the Nile River assuming it was a straight path and the golf ball traveled straight along the path?
5
In 2019, how many passengers went through Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW)?
7
If Oscars were made of solid gold and all of the Oscars ever awarded were melted, how much in value would it be in US dollars?
9
If I collected all of the Classic Monopoly games made from 2008 to 2015, how many Monopoly dollars would I have?
13
How many 13-in MacBook Pros would it take to weigh the same amount as a USPS delivery van?
4
How many new pieces of malware are detected each day all over the world?
6
How many different species of frogs are known to live in the Amazon rainforest?
3
How many pounds of fireworks are purchased each year by the general public (not for professional shows)?
8
In the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, how many medals were awarded?
3
Given a loaf of white Wonder Bread, how many carbon atoms make up the sugar content assuming all of the sugars are glucose?
24
What is the mass of everything in the asteroid belt in kilograms?
21
Assuming the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was made out of recyclable plastic and diverted to U.S. recycling facilities, how much of that plastic would end up in landfills in pounds?
7
Assuming an adult Black Iberian Pig was made of pure Plutonium-239, how long would it take to decompose naturally with its half life to the mass of an American penny in years?
5
In the first 24 hours of release, how many streams did Taylor Swift’s album “Midnights” get worldwide?
8
How many physical Christmas holiday cards are sent annually across the world?
9
How many rotisserie chickens did Costco sell in 2021?
8
An iPhone 6 is able to perform how many computer instructions per second?
9
What is the number of meters light will travel in one day?
13
Determine the number of Angstroms in a centimeter.
8
What is the number of heart beats taken in the lifetime of an octogenarian?
9
What is the number of kilometers in a light year?
13
Determine the number of feet one would travel from Columbus, OH, to San  Diego, CA.
7
Determine the number of sq. meters in the state of OH.
11
If a person weighs 150 lb on Earth, what would the weight be on Jupiter?
2
Assume there is an empty room that is 10 ft. x 10 ft x 10 ft.  How many baseballs could fit in this room?
4
How many atoms are there in an unused, standard #2 pencil?
22
How many Pringle potato chips, stacked in their normal way, would be needed to make a stack 100 m high?
5
How many words are spoken by the average person in an average lifetime? (Words need not be different from each other)
8
How many gallons of water fall over Niagara Falls in an average July day?
11
How many gallons of paint would it take to cover the surface of the earth?
14
How many gallons of water are flushed during the half time of the Super Bowl?
8
How many molecules of water are there in a liter of water?
25
What is the Kw of water at room conditions?
-14
How many quarter-pounder all beef hamburgers can be made from the average steer
3
How many grams of M & M’s (plain) would fill an Olympic swimming pool?
9
What is the volume of the earth in cubic kilometers?
12
What fraction of the earth’s mass is the moon?
-3
How many light-years would 30 kiloparsec be?
2
If all of the Earth’s oceans were transported to the Moon, what would be the average depth, in meters, of the lunar ocean?
4
How many quills does an average porcupine have?
4
How many jellybeans would it take to fill an NBA basketball?
3
How many dollars come in a standard Monopoly game?
4
If you had to shovel a fluffy snowfall (12 in deep) off of your driveway (25 m long x 4 m wide), how many kilograms of snow did you shovel?
3
What is the total length in cm of all the blood vessels in the human body?
10
How many electrons are there in a liter of water?
26
How many hours elapse from one full moon to the next one?
3
What is 115 to the power of 48?
99
How long would it take, in minutes, for a person to watch every YouTube video?
10
How many poker chips would you need to make a stack that could reach the moon from Earth?
10
How many seconds elapse from one full moon to the next?
6
How many golf balls could fit in a Boeing 747?
7
How many pounds of milk are produced in the US within a year?
11
If you poured at a rate of one drop of water per second, how long would it take you in hours to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool?
7
Within a year, how many gallons does the average human heart pump?
6
How many atoms are within all the humans in this very room?
29
What is the diameter of the nucleus of a human cell in km?
-8
How many watt-hours does a typical household refrigerator use per year?
6
How many standard milk cartons would it take to fill up Lake Erie?
15
How many different combinations are there for a standard 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube?
19
How long would it take, in hours, for the fastest person on Earth to run nonstop from here to San Francisco?
2
If you were going the speed of sound, how long would it take you to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench in hours?
-2
How many fish live in all the oceans combined?
12
Within a year, how many cups of coffee do Americans consume?
11
What is the amount of iron atoms found in one gram of iron?
22
What is the difference between the combined net worth of the 10 richest people in the world and the next 10 richest people in the world in US dollars?
11
How many red blood cells are found in the entire student body of The Ohio State University?
18
How many McDonald’s Happy Meals are sold in the US within a year?
8
How many pennies would you need to cover the surface area of the Sun?
22
Within the past week, how far has the Earth traveled in miles?
7
Using a standard 52-card deck, how many combinations of a 5-card hand can be drawn?
6
Going the speed of the fastest roller coaster in the world (Formula Rossa), how long would it take in hours to travel from the Sun to Pluto?
7
If the entire ocean froze over, what is the total increase in volume in cubic meters?
17
What is the diameter of the Andromeda Galaxy in parsecs?
5
On average, how many gallons of gasoline are used in the US per day?
8
How many standard bathtubs of water would it take to fill up the Grand Canyon?
13
If you were to lay out all the arteries, capillaries, and veins of an average adult human, how many humans would you need to wrap around the circumference of the Sun?
1
How many searches does Google, on average, process every second?
5
How many seconds would it take for light to travel from the base to the top of the tallest building in the world?
-6
How many planet Earths could fit inside the planet Jupiter?
3
What is the volume of a human skin cell in cubic meters?
-11
How many miles of toilet paper are used in the US per year?
9
How many golf balls would it take to fill up all the tanks in the Atlanta Aquarium?
9
What is the weight in nanograms of all the coffee beans that were consumed in 2022?
22
How many valid unique solved Sudoku puzzles exist?
22
At what speed do I need to throw a basketball in meters per second from the surface of Mercury for it to escape Mercury’s atmosphere?
3
How long would it take in seconds for an ant to diagonally cross a football field?
3
With what force in Newtons should I throw an ostrich egg at a 45 degree angle if I want it to land 85 meters away?
3
For how many days can a person survive on all of the oxygen produced by the Amazon rainforest in one minute?
5
How many unique legal chess positions are possible after both sides have played 8 moves each?
17
How many plastic bags need to be burnt to generate enough power to operate the Large Hadron Collider for a year?
19
How many calories are there in a Pizza Hut Pepperoni pizza the size of a baseball field?
8
How many dozens of glazed donuts can I buy from Dunkin Donuts in a year with the yearly salary of a US Senator?
4
How long in minutes will it take a person to play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony at each of London’s metro stations? (you do not need to account for travel time between stations)
4
How many atoms are there in a basketball?
26
What was the power in watts needed to run New York’s train system in 2021?
11
How many meters on average did a person in Switzerland travel by train in 2021?
3
If you randomly pick 5 distinct letters of the English alphabet (in a particular order) what is the probability that they form a word present in the Oxford Dictionary?
-3
How much memory in bytes does it take to store all the English books ever written in a PDF format?
13
How many credit card transactions took place in the world in 2022?
11
How many pennies need to be stacked to reach the height of the top of the Empire State Building?
5
What is the average value of a credit card transaction in the United States in dollars?
2
Tom has a chess board with 1 jellybean on the first square, 3 jellybeans on the second square, 9 jellybeans on the third square and so on with the nth square having 3^(n-1) jellybeans on it. How many jellybeans does Tom have in total?
31
How many people can the Eiffel Tower hold at maximum capacity?
4
At what temperature in Kelvin does a forest fire burn?
3
How many liters of sanitizer were consumed in 2021?
5
How many cups of coffee are consumed in the United States every day?
8
How many strands of hair are there on all the heads of people in the world?
15
How many toothpicks are needed to completely cover the body of a blue whale?
9
How many pounds of chicken are used every year by Chipotle?
8
How much power in watts was needed to power UNC’s campus for the year 2021?
10
How many unique types of bacteria exist in the small intestine of the average person?
5
What is the volume of the Earth, in cubic millimeters?
30
What is the pH of water?
1
What is the volume of all landmass above sea level in gallons?
19
What is the number of $100 bills currently in circulation worldwide?
10
What is the melting point of helium, in Kelvin?
0
What is the mass of almonds produced in the US during the most recent growing season, in solar masses?
-21
What is the density of a cloud in grams per liter?
0
What is the number of hydrogen atoms in the sun?
57
What is the number of people killed by lightning strikes across all of history?
6
What is the proportion of tin in bronze?
-1
What is the great circle distance between Miami and Seattle, measured in standard unsharpened pencils?
8
What is the age of the oldest living single (i.e. non-clonal) tree in months?
5
What is the average annual household electricity consumption, in kilowatt-hours?
4
What is the midpoint cross-sectional area of the observable universe in acres?
50
What is the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza, in pounds?
10
What is the wavelength of the lowest-pitched audible sounds to humans in room-temperature sea-level air, measured in furlongs?
-1
What is total hours of television watched in the US every day?
12
What is the number of grains of sand on Earth divided by the number of stars in the Milky Way?
8
What is the total mass of all DNA in every living human in kilograms?
9
What is the thickness of a typical sheet of printer paper in standard human hair widths?
0
What is total annual expenditures of every government in the world in 2019 in dollars?
13
What is the temperature of the core of the Sun in Kelvin?
7
What is the total length of all US interstate highways in feet?
8
What is the net weight of ashfall produced by the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption, in pounds?
12
What is the average molecular speed of room temperature air, in miles per hour?
3
What is the annual worldwide iron production divided by annual worldwide gold production, by mass?
6
What is the total volume of precipitation that falls in the US in an average year, in pints?
16
What is the volume of the Cullinan Diamond (the largest discovered uncut gem-quality diamond) in units of the volume of an Olympic swimming pool?
-7
What is the total surface area of all rivers in the world in square meters?
11
What is the number of shipping containers that could be filled using all of the ice in the world?
15
What are the low-end voltages for long-distance electric power transmission lines?
5
What is the weight of all neckties produced each year in the US in pounds?
7
What is the number of adults standing shoulder to shoulder that could fit on Taiwan, assuming flat ground?
11
What is the force needed to rupture a watermelon in compression, in Newtons?
2
What is the number of unique issues of American comics ever published?
5
What is the number of different items sold on Amazon?
8
What is the total storage capacity of all storage media in the world in bits?
23
What is total land area of farmland in the world, in square miles?
7
What is total transistors produced throughout history?
22
What is total mass of ants in the world in metric tons?
8