Crowd-size experts scoff at the mammoth figures floated annually by city officials and event organizers, saying it's impossible to squeeze that many of even the skinniest revelers into such a relatively small space. The real Times Square ball drop crowd likely has fewer than 100,000 people, crowd science professor G. Keith Still said.

Pando (Latin for "I spread")[1] is a clonal colony of an individual male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) found to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers[2] and assumed to have one massive underground root system. The root system of Pando is estimated to be up to several thousand years old,[7] placing Pando among the oldest known living organisms.