111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321If you tried to count off a billion seconds it would take you 31.7 years. One speck of dust contains a quadrillion atoms.Take a century and divide it into 50 million. You get about a minute.The average drinking glass holds 50 teaspoons of water. It takes seven shuffles to thoroughly mix a 52-card deck.The official definition of a “”jiffy”” is 1/100 of a second.The Chinese were the first to use a decimal system, in the sixth century B.C.