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It turns out that your brain has 40 million different olfactory receptor neurons, so odor A might trigger neurons 3, 427, and 988, and odor B might trigger neurons 8, 76, and 2,496,678.
The invention of cooking, one and half million years ago, gave us a huge advantage.
That's enough water to be the supply of about a million people if it were their sole water supply.
These peppers measure between 1.5 and 2 million Scoville heat units, which is about half the units found in pepper spray.
The worth should be about $2.5 million."
Our ancestors created these hand axes 1.5 million years ago, shaping them to not only fit the task at hand but also their hand.
So it can do a million different things and run a million different applications.
So you use them to talk on the phone, to surf the web, to play games, to take pictures or even a million different things.
What we're trying to do very rapidly is to repeat what nature did in the evolution of resurrection plants some 10 to 40 million years ago.
So, you may ask, how can it be that today it attracts and delights five million people a year, from all different backgrounds?
Too many people want to see this there, and the result is five million people going through that tiny door and experiencing it in a completely different way than we just did.
The Atlantic slave trade, occurring from the late 15th to the mid 19th century and spanning three continents, forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas.
And yet, that is exactly what happened, starting more than 500 million years ago.
Enter atomic clocks, some of which are so precise that they would not gain or lose a second even if they ran for the next 300 million years.
This second airflow enters a region filled with highly specialized olfactory receptor cells, several hundred millions of them, compaired to our five million.
All of this allows dogs to distinguish and remember a staggering variety of specific scents at concentrations up to 100 million times less than what our noses can detect.
So we thought, "Hmm ... a petition with one million signatures.
IW: But, who would have guessed one million signatures is, like, a thousand times a thousand?
Someone mentioned that the Bali airport handles 16 million arrivals and departures a year.
That's over 5 million people.
It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million.
How about a million dollars?
But pioneers like Dr. Hayden and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of Special Olympics, persevered, and Special Olympics athletes have proved them right four and a half million times over.
I am one of more than four and a half million athletes around the globe, and I've heard so many similar stories.
It was tweeted more than nine million times last year, and it is deeply hurtful to me and my four and a half million fellow athletes around the planet.
Special Olympics is changing the world by transforming four and a half million athletes and giving us a place to be confident, meet friends, not be judged and get to feel like and be champions.
In extreme contrast to the million year transformation of hydrogen to helium, the creation of the heaviest elements in a supernova takes place in only seconds.
The ocean holds an estimated 20 million tons of dissolved gold but at extremely miniscule concentrations making its recovery too costly at present.
In the last 50 years, global meat consumption has more than quadrupled, from 71 million tons to 310 million tons.
The World Health Organization recently reported that 800 million people are suffering from malnutrition and food shortage, which is due to that same growing, global population and the declining access to resources like water, energy and land.
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