“What’s the most interesting fact you know?”
He was laughing before he said it. “Wombats poop cubes.”
He also laughed so hard his milk threatened to escape through his nose.
“What about you? What’s the most interesting fact you know?”
He swallowed the last of his milk, confident it would now stay put. “It took the entirety of human history until 1804 before we reached a population of one billion. It took 123 years to reach two billion. And then just 33 years to reach three billion.”
They both stared at their empty glasses. Swallowed dryly.
“Got any cookies?”
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