In some book by P G Wodehouse (inventor of Jeeves the butler), one character says (out of nowhere) that all the humans on the planet could fit in a cubic hole 1/2 mile on each side. It took me a little while to convince myself that was true. It still is, apparently

Facts I try not to think about:

- More than 2/3rds of the world's avian biomass is poultry

- There are more Panda Expresses than pandas (edit - in the wild)

What would .2 billion tons of viruses look like? Or any large mass of viruses? Goopy? What color what it be? These are probably questions for an LLM

Famously, when asked about a god, J.B.S. Haldane allegedly said that if there is a god or gods, they must have an “inordinate fondness for beetles.”

It was fun and gave human written. Thanks for that!

I feel like it might be bamboo, but they sort of skipped over grasses

He did not calculate the weight of bacteria, archaea, viruses?

I understand that they each individually are small, but they are literally everywhere - and include carbon too.

How come algae did not make the list?

Was surprised not to see whales on the list

Obligatory xkcd has a nice visualization of the land mammals by mass:

https://xkcd.com/1338/

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Anaerobic bacteria in rock underground. Because they inhabit cubic volume, not 2D surfaces, there can be no comparison.

>There are thousands of species of ants and termites, and just one species of human.

that's rather debatable. unless, of course, you're an adherent of creationism.