6.9 Billion

A few weeks ago 26 year-old Mark Zuckerberg—the founder of Facebook, for those of you who’ve been living in a cave—was recently ranked on the Forbes 400 at #35 with 6.9 billion dollars.  This is an exceptionally large amount of money.  So large, in fact, it can be hard to comprehend, much like the known universe or Christina Hendrick’s bosom. Thus I thought it’d be informative to try and put Zuckerberg’s billions into a little real-world perspective: