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[-] newcolour@reddthat.com 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

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[-] Interesting_Test_814@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Texas is larger than any country in Europe except Russia.

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[-] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“This sentence is a lie” sounds false but is actually true. I think?

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[-] spacedancer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

In future space travel spaghettification will be a serious concern.

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[-] Shikadi@wirebase.org 16 points 2 years ago
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[-] hansl@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] wumpus@latte.isnot.coffee 14 points 2 years ago

Regardless which lossless compression algorithm you prefer, it makes most files bigger.

*where "files" includes all bitstrings of a given length, whether or not they've ever existed

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[-] Savirius@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

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

!Etymology@kbin.social

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[-] Doomladen@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

The first can/tin opener wasn’t invented until about 75 years after canned food started being produced. During that time, people used hammers and chisels to open cans.

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[-] trouser_mouse@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I am quite old and responsible when I'm not here?

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