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1/36,576 th
of the depth of the deepest portion of the Grand Canyon (1,828,800 millimeters)

50 millimeters =

50 kilometers per hour =

1/552 th

of the velocity of the International Space Station (27,600 kilometers per hour)

1/2,000 th
of the number of hairs found on an average human head (100,000 hairs)

50 hairs =

1/108,000 th
of the area covered by the Antarctic Ice Sheet (5,400,000 square miles)

50 square miles =

1/2,600,000 th
of the number used to construct the Huaca del Sol (130,000,000 adobe bricks)

50 adobe bricks =

1/5,800,000 th
of the thickness of the Earths mantle (290,000,000 centimeters)

50 centimeters =

1/60,000 th
of the number of pints brewed each day at the St. Jamess Gate Brewery (3,000,000 pints)

50 pints =

1/798,000,000,000 th
of the distance to Proxima Centauri (39,900,000,000,000 kilometers)

50 kilometers =

1/36,960 th
of the age of the oldest Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (1,847,995 days)

50 days =

1/17,890 th
of the original weight of the Golden Gate Bridge (894,500 tons)

50 tons =

1/1,563,328,200 th
of the number of eggs consumed in the US in 2012 (78,166,410,000 eggs)

50 eggs =

1/3,473,871,667,200 th
of the volume of Lake Michigan (173,693,583,360,000 cubic feet of water)

50 cubic feet of water =

1/28,498 th
of the number of yards of bookshelves at the Library of Congress (1,474,880 yards)

50 yards =

1/30,440 th
of the amount of thrust generated by a Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine (1,522,000 pounds-force)

50 pounds-force =

1/125,052 th
of the number of individuals without health insurance in Texas (6,252,600 individuals)

50 individuals =

1/2,796,440 th
of the diameter of Jupiter (139,822,000 meters)

50 meters =

1/687,344 th
of the amount of wine consumed globally in 2011 (24,367,197 liters)

50 liters =

1/31,886 th
of the estimated age of Jonathan, a Seychelles Giant Tortoise (1,594,320 hours)

50 hours =

1/5,272,000,000 th
of the vehicle miles driven in the US in July, 2013 (263,600,000,000 vehicle miles)

50 vehicle miles =

1/8,688 th
of the depth of Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the ocean (434,400 inches)

50 inches =

1/487 th
of the number of windows on the Burj Khalifa (24,348 windows)

50 windows =

1/679,872 th
of the land comprising the US National Park System (33,993,594 hectares)

50 hectares =

1/8,960 th
of the maximum takeoff weight for a Boeing 747-8F (448,000 kilograms)

50 kilograms =

1/2,000,000,000,000 th
of the number of bacteria found in an average human body (100,000,000,000,000 bacteria)

50 bacteria =

1/60,000,000,000 th
of the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy (300,000,000,000 stars)

50 stars =

of the length of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (54,000 seconds)

1/1,080 th

50 seconds =

1/578,900 th
of the volume of Lake Mead (28,945,000 acre-feet)

50 acre-feet =

of the number of frames in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (171,360 frames)

1/3,427 th

50 frames =

1/5,215 th
of the total time elapsed since construction commenced at Stonehenge (260,728 weeks)

50 weeks =

1/276,000,000 th
of the estimated age of the Universe (13,800,000,000 years)

50 years =

1/15,260 th
of the circumference of a size 7 basketball (762,000 microns)

50 microns =

of the number of entries in the 2nd Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (228,132 entries)

1/4,563 th

50 entries =

1/2,520,000 th
of the number collected by the National Museum of Natural History (126,000,000 specimens)

50 specimens =

of the total word count for Prousts la recherche du temps perdu (1,267,069 words)

1/25,341 th

50 words =

1/914,000,000 th
of the number produced in 2012 (45,700,000,000 LEGO bricks)

50 LEGO bricks =

1/200,000,000 th
of the construction cost of the Shanghai Maglev Train (10,000,000,000 yuan)

50 yuan =

1/340,000,000,000 th
of the amount of water contained in Chesapeake Bay (17,000,000,000,000 gallons)

50 gallons =

1/382,000 th
of the weight of the Space Needle (19,100,000 pounds)

50 pounds =

1/300,000 th
of the number of iPhones sold by Apple in 2013 (150,000,000 iPhones)

50 iPhones =

1/177,800 th
of the amount of petroleum products consumed daily in the US (8,890,000 barrels)

50 barrels =

1/422,400 th
of the length of the Amazon River (21,120,000 feet)

50 feet =

1/79,988 th
of the number born in the US in 2010 (3,999,386 babies)

50 babies =

1/60,000,000 th
of the complete human genome (3,000,000,000 base pairs)

50 base pairs =

1/200,000,000 th
of the distance to supernova SN UDS10Wil (10,000,000,000 light years)

50 light years =

1/1,204,000,000 th
of the number consumed annually in the UK (60,200,000,000 cups of tea)

50 cups of tea =

1/253,507,418 th
of the half-life of Plutonium-239 (12,675,370,900 minutes)

50 minutes =

1/67,245 th
of the distance between London and Melbourne (3,362,240 rods)

50 rods =

1/350,428,356,601 th
of the amount of the current US public debt (17,521,417,830,074 dollars)

50 dollars =

50 miles per hour =

1/781 th

of the current speed of Voyager 1 (39,057 miles per hour)

1/174,868 th
of the number issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office through 2011 (8,743,423 patents)

50 patents =

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Collected, Calculated, and Curated by Jeff Stvan in Honor of Max Sims 50 Birthday
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