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A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles

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What's the Number of Stars in the Universe?

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I salute the pec maker, although i would suggest that he's probably a little a weak on we would call an economic interaction effects. The universe doesn't have enough life left in it, or ever to trayall combinations of peto, cheese, ofan et cetera. I think there's an actual number, but we have no idea precisely how many grain osand there are in the earth. In my view of the world, the the number of stars in the universe is approximately equal to the number of grains of sand. And that's ten to the 20 second. Now went, oa, pick on you little bit andat to bring out any contact point, you

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