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Give us your craziest ocean facts. ๐Ÿฆ‘ (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks 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] 14 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago

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

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