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Give us your craziest ocean facts. πŸ¦‘ (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (17 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t like more than half that number diseases like malaria spread through mosquitoes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the numbers are different everywhere, but mosquitoes cause at least 50% of that million.

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