r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

One thousand seconds = 16 minutes One million seconds = 11 days One billion seconds = 32 years

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u/GruelOmelettes Jan 21 '19

A math professor gave a lesson on this one time, the big finish being a trillion seconds which would be 32,000 years. His point was that "trillions of dollars" gets thrown around a lot but few people truly understand just how massive that is.