Crayola... 100 billion served

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Crayola... 100 billion served


How Much is 100 Billion?

It's taken us 93 years to make that many Crayola crayons. We know it's
a lot... But still, it's hard to picture just what 100 billion crayons
would look like. Here are some ideas:

   * If laid end to end, they would reach the moon and back 12 times.

   * They could circle the equator 240 times (although they would
     probably melt).

   * They could be laid across North America, from coast to coast,
     more than 1,900 times.

   * They would fill 1,730 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

   * If we handed out 100 billion crayons today, every man, woman and
     child in the world would each have their own 16-count box of
     Crayola crayons. If we handed them out just in the U.S., each
     person would have four 96 boxes.

   * If stacked end to end, 100 billion Crayola crayons would be 268
     million times taller than the World Trade Center.

   * 100 billion crayons would create a drawing that would cover
     35,000 square miles. You could color in the whole state of Maine,
     and still have enough crayon left over for Rhode Island!


Crayola Website

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