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TIL that if the entire world’s population stood side by side in a giant square, with each person having 1 square meter of space to stand in, that (not so giant) square would only be 80km (50 miles) in length in each direction, and a Bugatti Veyron could drive around it in 50 minutes.

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d87dB TIL that there was a rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A Malicious rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it”.