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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Moose are prey to Orca Whales.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

There are 100 billion bacterial cells in a single gram of poop.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

7% of all homosapien to have ever lived are alive today.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Trees are mostly made of air.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I assume you mean trees are mostly made from air and not trees are mostly gaseous. Most of trees are carbon, which they get from carbon dioxide in the air, but they transform it, using energy from the sun. Equivalently you could say they're mostly made from sunlight, which is obviously wrong, but equally accurate.

The statement that humans are mostly water, on the other hand, is actually correct. It is water in the form of water from water.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (13 children)
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[–] spacedancer 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It’s more expensive to execute a person on death row than to keep them imprisoned for life.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

In future space travel spaghettification will be a serious concern.

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[–] Savirius 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The word "alone" comes from a compound of "all" + "one".

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