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A lot of people outside of HN don't know what a trillion is.

Tell them it's comparable to $1 bills laid end to end from here to the sun.

And tell them it's only 1/35 of the US national debt, which is roughly $350,000 per US taxpayer.

Easy fix, just use $100 bills and we are only 35% of the way to sun. Problem solved.

How many Olympic swimming pools is that?

It’s several football fields full of cash.

American football or the more globally popular kind?

Which do you think? :p

Metric or Imperial "several"?