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“If the world population of about 5.4 billion people were gathered together in one spot, with each person standing on a generous two-by-two-foot patch of ground, we’d cover an area of less than eight hundred square miles—only about the size of Jacksonville, Florida.”
— Marilyn Savant, Parade
Found in The Story File - 1001 Contemporary Illustrations · The Story File > Culture
The point
Illustrates how small humanity is physically compared to the vastness of the earth.
Audience
Adults
To tell aloud
under a minute · 43 words