The Olympics: By The Numbers

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HumorThe Olympics: By The Numbers

  • Number of events: 271
  • Number of events left once you eliminate all the mutant sports like synchronized kayaking: Maybe 6
  • TV audience: (counting everybody on earth 7 times) 35 billion
  • Number of molecules in a single grain of salt: 470 trillion
  • Number of times the average American will see an Olympic-related TV commercial that will attempt to equate an activity such as pole vault with an activity such as shrinking swollen hemorrhoidal tissue: 2,537
  • Total number of people who will come to Greece this summer: 17 million
  • Total available parking spaces: 4