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Luckily, if you try to eat a polar bear liver, the polar bear will stop you.
But don't worry, human liver is safe for polar bears to consume.
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Vitamin eh 🇨🇦
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Am I the only one seeing the opportunity regarding billionaires? Of course we have to use a polar bear who is already dead so we don't have to kill the poor thing to get rid of billionaires. We can start by leaking the rumors that when a polar bear dies due to old age its liver releases certain enzymes that make it extremely delicious. Also eating a spoon of that liver each day for a week has been shown to elongate telomeres and greatly reduce, even revert, aging.
...greatly reduce, even revert, aging.
There's a case to be made that it does stop its consumer from aging much further if applied correctly.
I'd sacrifice a polar bear to get rid of a billionaire, ngl.
That's an interesting statistical question, too. Are there more polar bears still alive than billionaires?
Sure, tons of them in zoos. Well more than billionaires.
Tho I’d like to see them in zoos instead. Rare animal and all. Worth gawking at the way people back in the day would gawk at the strange “savages” from distant lands..
I'd pay to see Elon musk jumping up and down in a zoo enclosure, throwing his shit at the visitors.
By an order of magnitude.
WWF estimates around 26,000 polar bears remaining (22,000-30,000). And there are 2640 billionaires globally according to Forbes.
"Sacrificing a whole other species is a chance I'm willing to take"
If we don't get rid of rich people many more species are going to be sacrificed.
Stops the ageing process immediately!
Do you even need to involve an actual liver? We could just start a rumor and then skin some billionaires the old fashioned way.
You don't even need to make all the marketing bullshit, just slap a US$ 5k price per serving and the rich will flock to it
Would be amazingly ironic too... To be killed by eating the flesh of a species that they played no insignificant part in making endangered.
Couldn’t we just skip the middle man so to speak and feed some billionaires to a few polar bears out right?
The reason that polar bear liver has toxic levels of vitamin A is that seal liver does and polar bears eat those.
So don't eat seal liver either.
Theat found the bone-hurting juice. It’s a polar bear liver milkshake
Sounds more like skin hurting juice.
What vitamin overdose would cause bones to fall off? 🤔
but symptoms typically included [...], bone pain, [...]
Boneitis?
My only regret.
That problem is easily solved. Don’t eat polar bear
"Tolerable upper intake" is based on more than a single does. One gram would almost certainly be fine. There's some slightly sketchy 1940s "fuck them lab-rats" science going on, but some scientists at Cambridge guesstimated it would take making it into a significant side-dish or main course to REALLY fuck you up:
It is questionable what factor should be taken to convert doses used for rats to the corresponding doses for man, but the ratio of 75 taken from the relative food intakes of the 100 g. rat and 70 kg. man would seem reasonable. If we take 100,000 i.u. of vitamin A as sufficient to cause immediate illness in the rat, then about 7,500,000 units should cause illness in man. This amount would be present in 375 g. of bear liver containing 20,000 i.u. of vitamin A/g., not an excessive portion to be eaten at a single meal.
scientists at Cambridge guesstimated it would take making it into a significant side-dish or main course to REALLY fuck you up
I actually heard about this from a YouTube channel referencing the diary of Gerrit de Veer from 1597 where he recounted his expeditions' encounter with eating polar bear liver and nearly dying from it in 1596.
I can't find the actual diary entry, but I think it's behind a pay wall on the Wikipedia link as a reference.
The story the YouTuber told was presumably in the diary. He said their ship got stuck in ice and they used wood from the ship to make a cabin. Sometime later, they had a run-in with a polar bear and ended up shooting it from inside the cabin. Sometime after that, they had a group meal consuming the polar bear liver and everybody's skin started falling off.
How many people are trying to eat polar bear liver?
Very few actually! Apparently some Dutch explorers back in the 1500s trying to sail over the top of the globe got stuck in ice and ended up killing and eating a polar bear and documented their illnesses
We didn't figure out what happened to them until the 1940s
I'm more surprised with how they managed to kill a polar bear. Those things are ferocious.
Is 2 grams safe?
Sure. Each gram means death and since death is a negative, they cancel each other out!
(Don't try it though.)
This is true. It's why you never see dead people with an even number of fatal bullet wounds.
Shalt thou count to one no more no less
Five is right out...