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According to the Global Slavery Index, there are 18 million people living in slavery in India. This is four times greater than the number of slaves in the United States at the peak of American slavery.

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About 10 million slaves were brought from Africa to the New World. The vast majority went to Brazil and the Caribbean. Only about 6% ended up in what is now the United States.

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Parkinson's law of triviality, also known as "bikeshedding", argues that organizations give disproportionate weight to trivial issues because they are easy to understand. For example, if a proposed solar power plant includes plans for an employee bike shed, then there will be a lots of debate about the bike shed while the complicated engineering issues are overlooked.

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Don't worry. If the United States and Russia have a nuclear war, it won't kill the entire human race. The concept of a nuclear winter is almost certainly flawed science.

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The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word γυμνός meaning "nude". Greek athletes often did not wear clothes where they were training.

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Level 42

Sep 13, 2018

while they may not have been in the USA, a lot of the profits went to the big owners in Europe and USA, I would assume -(perhaps I am wrong, though.)

Level 89

Sep 30, 2018

Americans didn't own much of colonial Brazil and the Caribbean. For the duration of the transatlantic slave trade after 1781 when the U.S. became independent, the European colonial powers traded with the U.S. but did not want it making inroads in their colonies, getting economic strength and spreading ideas of independence.

Level 59

Sep 16, 2020

The US was still relatively wild and considered a backwater...and we got out of the slave trade early on, 1800-something while Jefferson was president I think.

Level 84

May 5, 2021

"Big owners"???

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Level 65

Sep 16, 2018

I read the whole interest facts in one sitting. Not many people know that.

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Intersting

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This is my inter-resting period right now.

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Nov 12, 2018

interesting

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I also

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Sep 5, 2020

I didn't

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Uhm... Interesting?

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Level 75

Dec 21, 2020

Interestin'. And you saved Page 34 for last?

Level 59

Feb 2, 2022

You might find this interesting: back in 2018, there used to only be 34 pages of interesting facts.

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Feb 6, 2024

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Sep 30, 2018

How many bike sheds are they building in North Cyprus?

Level 59

Sep 15, 2020

Is the bike shed in Europe or Asia? And there’s a football shed, what does that mean?

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Oct 1, 2018

To be clear, nuclear war is extremely bad. But even so, most people in the world would survive it.

Level 66

Oct 3, 2018

Crap I live in one of those countries

Level 56

Jun 18, 2020

same

Level 48

Jan 25, 2019

Some of these "facts" seem to have a political slant. Did anybody claim every human would die solely because of a nuclear winter? The wikipedia article looks like it was written by people who spent a lot of time refuting stuff nobody really said.

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Feb 15, 2019

I agree that Carl Sagan may not have claimed 100% human extinction but he did claim that a nuclear winter would happen. And it was a popular enough concept for me to know what it was as a high-schooler. It's also not something that would happen.

Level 72

May 29, 2019

While I never expected everyone to die from nuclear winter, I certainly thought it was something that could happen and would likely kill most people in the world. this is one of the facts that I found most interesting

Level 84

May 5, 2021

Having gotten a good look now at what things were like with fairly low level supply chain disruptions during the pandemic (toilet paper anyone??), a nuclear winter wouldn't be necessary for there to be millions of dead from some kind of nuclear attack. An EMP blast in the atmosphere could put huge areas back into the stone age, and it's not pretty to think what would happen to our modern society, especially in the cities.

Level 45

Nov 12, 2018

I thought that said Pakistan's law of triviality. very confused until reread.

Level 82

Apr 1, 2019

If it's possible that some small percentage of the human population could survive the aftermath of an all-out worldwide nuclear conflict, then what are we waiting for?

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Level 59

Apr 9, 2019

The fact that this was commented on April Fools Day makes it even better.

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Level 75

Apr 25, 2019

Given a population in India of ~1.34 billion, 18 million slaves is a little over 0.01% of the population.

According to some of the data on this page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States - in around 1860, about 12.5% of the population of the US were slaves.

So I'm not really sure why fact 166 is framed the way it is. Of course, it's still terrible, and maybe I'm missing the point?

Level 72

May 29, 2019

The fact that it's a smaller percentage of the population doesn't matter. There are still more people living in slavery there now. The point is that people seem to think slavery is all but gone in the world, and yet one of the largest countries in the world is still using the practice and large numbers of people live in conditions that they shouldn't have to.

Level 75

Jan 16, 2020

Sure, it's terrible. I just don't see why the number is being compared to the US number

Level 82

Feb 21, 2021

I understand it more as emphasizing how bad it is in India rather than downplaying US slavery, especially as there's 150 years between them.

Level 60

Nov 10, 2020

I don't know about you but 18 million Slaves is not a small number even in a country with 1.4 billion people. We might have a lot of people but that doesn't means we have sympathy or compassion for humans. India's case is very different, we had a huge population from the very beginning and It's really disheartening to say as an Indian but it's our lack of proper education and political guidance since independence which couldn't control our overwhelming population.

Here's a YouTube video about child labour in India which is actually kind of slavery but we don't realise that

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Level 78

Nov 25, 2020

It's over 1%, not 0.01%

Level 84

May 5, 2021

To be fair, your math is off by an order of 100. 1% of a billion is 10 million. So 18M/1.34B is not 0.01%, it's about 1.4%.

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May 13, 2020

because everyone looks at the US civil war, not so much other revolutions/civil wars

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Dec 8, 2020

170 ....... caused much fun when handing on the baton in the relay races.

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Feb 24, 2022

#169 is good right about now

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Feb 29, 2024

Nuclear Bombs would cause tsunamis. It would cause the global warming issue to be temporarily solved. But a Nuclear will eventually die. Humans are capable of anything.