• islandofcaucasus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh shit, I was thinking there was no way that hundreds of thousands of people did from drowning every year, but they actually do.

    WHO estimates that every year over 200k people die from drowning

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      1 year ago

      Yea I did my 10 seconds of research before I quoted my number! I could have said ‘200k’ but ‘hundreds of thousands’ sounds much more dramatic don’t you think? Which is the whole point of the Dihydrogen monoxide thing.