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Is 5.90 megatonnes as heavy as a Jelly Bean?

It's about 5,500,000,000,000 times as heavy as a Jelly Bean
The weight of a Jelly Bean is about 0.00000000000110 megatonnes.
(for Jelly Belly beans; approximate)
Made of sugar, corn syrup, and pectin, a single jelly bean weighs about 0.00000000000110 megatonnes. President Ronald Reagan cited jelly beans as his favorite candy and 0.00000320 megatonnes of the candies were served at his first inauguration in 1981.
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