An atom is mostly made up of empty space. If you remove the empty space from every atom, the entire world's human population could fit inside a sugar cube.

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The world's human population is estimated to be about 7.2 billion people. The world's total land mass is estimated to be 142 million square miles, which would mean that each person in the world could fit into an area around the size of two-thirds of the state of Rhode Island. But what if everyone in the world lived in an area much smaller than Rhode Island? What if all 7.2 billion people lived in an area only one-third the size of Rhode Island? If so, each person would have an area about the size of a big cupcake, or a sugar cube.

Source: Chemistry

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