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Give us your craziest ocean facts. ๐Ÿฆ‘ (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (17 children)

fun fact: we kill 3 TRILLION animals a year, most of which are sea animals.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (9 children)

fun fact: animals, exluding humans, kill about 1 MILLION of us humans a year, most of which are not sea animals.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Weird mathematical fact about that,

That works out to almost exactly every person on Earth killing exactly one animal every day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I guess people eating a basket of shrimp are balanced out by people sharing one cow with several hundred others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Actually very interesting, I wonder if this ratio holds up throughout history.

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