A crazy wacky world.

There are about 540,000 words in the English language, which is five times as many words as there were in Shakespeare's time, according to Richard Saul Wurman, author of Information Anxiety.

You can thank science and technology for this.

Wurman also says a week's worth of New York Times contains more information than someone in the 17th century was likely to come across in a lifetime.

In one year, an average person will read 3,000 notices and forms, read 100 newspapers and 36 magazines, watch 2,463 hours of television, listen to 730 hours of radio, talk on the telephone for 61 hours and read three books.

Add to that what you read on the Internet and it gets pretty crazy.