Next time you are feeling rather unimportant, try a little arithmetic trick based on the undebatable fact that it took two people, your parents, to get you here. They each had two parents, so there are four more people who contributed to your existence.
You are the product of eight great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, 32 great-great-great grandparents, etc. Keep on multiplying the number by two. If you figure an average of about 25 years between each generation, you'll discover that a scant 500 years ago, there were 1,048,576 people on this planet beginning the production of you!
This is from an article in the Reader's Digest (year unknown)
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