The adage about the population of the world being able to stand up on the Isle of White is no longer true and furthermore dull. We decided that an entriely new statistic on the world's population would be a good thing.
The world's population has just reached 6.5bn (6,500,000,000) [1]. So, if we assume the average person on the planet weighs 60kg (and that we are mostly water, which weighs 1kg/litre), each human would create 60 litres of knobbly human jam. Nice. So, we've got 360bn litres of 'jam', but where can it go? Lake Windermere, the largest lake in England holds roughly 300bn litres of water [2]. Taking account of the fact that we are not totally comprised of water, an 83.3% liquid yield from everyone on the planet would make it spot on. A decline in tourism may however ensue.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5343646.stm
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Awesome, disgusting, and full of bizarre images. The best kind of fact.
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