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It sounds pretty weird, but if you search for "surprise eggs" on YouTube, it'll tell you there's 10
million
of these videos, and I think that's an undercount.
But the thing is, you have to remember, there really are still people within this algorithmically optimized system, people who are kind of increasingly forced to act out these increasingly bizarre combinations of words, like a desperate improvisation artist responding to the combined screams of a
million
toddlers at once.
In 1984, in what can only be considered one of the greatest crimes of humanity, nearly one
million
people died of starvation in my country of birth, Ethiopia.
Not six months later, in July 2002, Ethiopia announced a major food crisis, to the same proportions as 1984: 14
million
people at risk of starvation.
The third number is 12: That's the number of cities in the world that had a
million
or more people when my grandmother was born.
Now there are 500 cities, nearly, with a
million
people or more in them.
Now together, through our supply chain, with partners, we've managed to certify 35
million
hectares of forestry.
We also have a foundation that's committed to work through partners and help improve the lives and protect the rights of 100
million
children by 2015.
Africa produces 10
million
barrels a day of oil now.
You might choose China, which is the bulk of that East Asian blue line, where there's 200
million
young people, and every year until 2010 that's getting bigger.
The U.N. estimates that there are 55
million
users of illegal drugs in the United States.
And so, on New Year's Eve of 2007, I went to the zoo, and I stood in front of the elephants, and I said, "This city is going on a diet, and we're going to lose a
million
pounds."
When we reached a
million
pounds, in January of 2012, I flew to New York with some our participants who had lost over 100 pounds, whose lives had been changed, and we appeared on the Rachael Ray show, and then that afternoon, I did a round of media in New York pushing the same messages that you're accustomed to hearing about obesity and the dangers of it.
In the U.S. alone, there's more than four
million
miles of roads, very expensive to build, very expensive to maintain infrastructure, with a huge ecological footprint, and yet, very often, congested.
Well it turns out that the cost to do that there would be less than a
million
dollars.
And remarkably, that matches exactly what our ancestors are believed to have invented one and a half
million
years ago, when they invented cooking.
And there have been 15
million
candles lit in one decade.
Investors have put in 3.1
million
pounds.
So David Cameron's put 20
million
pounds into a social outcomes fund to support this idea.
Obama has suggested 300
million
dollars in the U.S. budget for these kinds of ideas and structures to move it forward, and a lot of other countries are demonstrating considerable interest.
In the United States, for example, more than 70
million
new homes must be built over the next 40 or 50 years.
Now Mount Hood's only one hour's drive from Portland, the largest city in Oregon, where over two
million
people live.
Many of them told us the stories about how they came to own their home through their grandparents or great-grandparents, who were one of 1.6
million
people who migrated from the rural South to the industrial North, as depicted in this painting by Jacob Lawrence, "The Great Migration."
The first couple of decades of their life in the North is quite well, up until about 1950, which coincides with the city's peak population at 1.8
million
people.
On October 14th, before we discovered it, it made its closest approach to the Earth, within about 15
million
miles.
Well, I could think of a
million
things, but there's what you want and what you can have, and 'Oumuamua was moving away and fading very rapidly.
Just in the U.S., a system like this can prevent over 60,000 delays and cancellations every year, helping seven
million
passengers get to their destinations on time.
There's over three
million
amputees every year who need a new or replacement knee.
So now here's a question: if I were to ask you, for example, to make a one-time investment of, say, 200
million
dollars to buy one of those bottles, so 200
million
dollars up front, one time, to buy one of those bottles, I won't tell you which one it is, and in 10 years, I'll tell you whether you have one of the blue ones.
I don't know how many of you know that five
million
children don't reach the age of five because of simple infections that can be prevented by an act of washing their hands with soap.
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