We have the Parenthesis disease in our literature , too ; and one may see cases of it every day in our books and newspapers : but with us it is the mark and sign of an unpracticed writer or a cloudy intellect , whereas with the Germans it is doubtless the mark and sign of a practiced pen and of the presence of that sort of luminous intellectual fog ...
6) The total ant population makes our 7 billion look weak. In their Pulitzer-prize winning book The Ants, researchers Bert HÃ¶lldobler and Edward O. Wilson estimate that there are upwards of 10,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants alive on Earth at any given time.
There are about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 insects on earth at any given moment. Seriously, that's a real number. For every one of us, there are 1.5 billion bugs. But some of them are so horrifying, just one is too many.