This week, the world’s human #population is expected to reach 8B. About 109B people have lived and died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.

Spectacular #data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser #science #SharedPlanet

@Sheril to a first approximation, there are the same number of neurons in a human brain as stars in a galaxy. And the same number of galaxies in the universe as humans who have ever lived. So every human neuron has a matching star.