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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
How many humans have lived before you on earth?
The BBC has a new interactive feature that allows you to see where, at the time of your birth, you were positioned in the history of world population.
So for example, when I was born:
Alex:
and Baba:
Pretty cool huh? Exponential growth = crazy shit.
You can also check other facts, like your life expectancy based on gender and country, etc. Like, it said that between the time I plugged in my date of birth and got to the end of the short questionnaire, 136 people had been born. Anyway, check it out!
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