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This is the name of the chemical herbicide employed by US forces used during the Vietnam War
What is Agent Orange? (4 million citizens were exposed to agent orange. Health effects included chronic B-cell leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, prostate cancer, respiratory cancer, lung cancer, and soft tissue sarcomas.)
This animal will confuse its arm for a branch, going to grab it, only to fall to their death.
What are sloths?
500 of these reach the Earth's surface every year.
What are meteorites? (Most of these are too small to cause significant destruction, but in 2013, a meteorite strike in Russia caused a massive shockwave, destroying windows and buildings, as well as injuring around 400 people)
This is the company that popularized the idea of the 'carbon footprint' and tying global warming to the responsibility of the individual.
What is BP?
This is the amount of time a human head may remain conscious following decapitation.
What is 3-4 seconds?
This superhero got erased from reality for ten years. When they returned, their children didn't exist, and their former wife didn't know who they were. They would later go to therapy, where they would accidentally absorb the pain of all the other heroes at therapy and in doing so kill them all in a freak outburst of power.
This is the percentage of cheetahs that are inbred.
What is 90%?
This is how long it would take before you pass out in the vacuum of space without a space suit.
What is 10-15 seconds?
This is the percentage of total greenhouse gas emissions caused by just 100 companies.
You shed approximately 35 kg of this in your whole life.
What is skin?
This was the difference in the % of the popular vote between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, to one decimal place.
What is 2.5% (Trump got 50.4%, whereas Kamala got 47.9%. However Trump got many more electoral college votes, which is what really matters - 312 compared to Kamala's 226)
These are the animals who was part of a study. The researcher played a recording of a dead animal from a speaker hidden in a thicket. The dead animal's daughter called back for days afterwards, hoping to find her father.
What are elephants?
This is the name of the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence supporting the existence of extraterrestrial life, and the proposed likelihood of its existence.
What is the Fermi Paradox? (Are we truly alone in the universe. If we are, why? Does there exist some great filter? A point in the evolution of an intelligent civilization where, once we get there, our society will be wiped out. Or perhaps we're too stupid, too pathetic to be acknowledged. Like ants. Or perhaps, we truly are alone, and the universe is just a beautiful desolate expanse).
What is 14? (Penalties range from fines of tens of thousands of dollars, to life imprisonment, thank you Alabama)
You waste 10% of your day doing this.
What is blinking?
This is the number of children on Gallifrey the day the moment was activated?
What is 2.47 billion?
This is the number of animal species human action has forced into extinction.
This was the cause of death of Laika the space dog.
What is overheating? (What ended up being Laika's demise was the heatshield coming loose and the cabin heating up to 90 degrees Celsius and therefore, causing her to die of overheating and stress )
This is the number of countries in which gay marriage is legal.
What is 36? (The 36 countries account for a population of 1.5 billion. According to the UN there are 195 recognized countries, so there are still 159 countries where gay marriage is illegal).
This is the chance of the average citizen in the UK developing some form of cancer.
What is 50%? (According to the NHS)
This is the estimated percentage of adults that suffer from depression?
What is 5%? (From WHO: An estimated 3.8% of the population experience depression, including 5% of adults (4% among men and 6% among women), and 5.7% of adults older than 60 years. Approximately 280 million people in the world have depression (1). Depression is about 50% more common among women than among men. Worldwide, more than 10% of pregnant women and women who have just given birth experience depression (2). More than 700 000 people die due to suicide every year. Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death in 15–29-year-olds. )
This was the species of 'Murderous Mary', an animal killed in a public execution after killing its captor and abuser in self-defense.
What is elephant?
This is the name of the centre of the Laniakea Supercluster, with a mass quadrillion times greater than the Sun.
What is the Great Attractor? (We don't know where all this mass originates from, but at our current rate, it would take the Milky Way 100 million years to get there)
There are an estimated 49.6 million of these people worldwide.
What are slaves?
This is the cause of 1,200 child deaths every day.
Diarrhoea