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beloch on Oct 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Animals We Ate into Extinction

~7.6 billion humans weigh 420 billion tons? That would mean the average human weighs 55 tons! Talk about an epidemic of extreme morbid obesity!

qume on Oct 18, 2017 [–]

Good spotting, for humans that's Million tons.

It's going to be quite some time until humans weigh 55 tons, but if you interpret the graph like people pitching to investors like to, we'll get there.

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