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opossumo@lemmings.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours ago

TIL: There are roughly 2.5 million ants per person

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TIL: There are roughly 2.5 million ants per person

opossumo@lemmings.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours ago
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    Wait, really? How do I get mine?

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      13 hours ago

      Star by rubbing syrup all over yourself. Then lie down in the grass. Then start squirming around. Then roll around. What was the question?

      • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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        I don’t know, but I need a cigarette. Hope it was good for you, too.

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    But can they fuck up the environment the way we do? I don’t think so

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    I don’t think the average person could defend themselves against 2.5m ants. They could overthrow us at any moment.

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      Do I get prep time?

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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      All we have to do is get them going in a circle

  • breakingcups@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Where can I claim mine?

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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      Just stick your bare hand in this bag and grab whatever you need. Did I mention that your share are all bullet ants?

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        Don’t listen to this guy. Stick your hand in MY bag. There’s no bullet ants in here. Just reach in, and grab the handle inside, and shake it to release the ants.

        Yeah girl, shake it real hard! Just like that! Yeeeeaaaahhhhh…

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          I’ve got a mechanical device that will shake the ants out … I’ll just crank it up to 10,000 rpm so I can get my ants fast and be on my way … let me just adjust the carburetor so I pull start the engine to get started … HOLD STILL!!!

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          username checks out, wait does this work here?

          • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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            Nope. Sorry. Nobody has any idea what you’re talking about. Like is the username buying something at a store or…!?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Alright… So what the fuck am I supposed to do with 2.5m ants?

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    I must have killed at least 10 peoples worth of ants in my garden this year.

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    There are 2.27 popes per sq km in the Vatican.

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      Global population per capita is 1

      • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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        What are the odds of this? How do people deny a creator!?

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    “The average person has one Fallopian tube.” ―Bo Burnham

    • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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      I didn’t get any. :( Can someone share their extras? Redistribute fallopian tubes!

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      And <1 ball

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    It may sound like a lot, but that’s at maximum just 12.5kg (around 27.5 pounds) of ants.

    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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      12.5 kg of ants is, like, a LOT of ants.

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        Well now I want ants.

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      I remember reading once that world wide, all the ants on the planet weigh collectively more than all the elephants put together on the planet.

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    Source: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/einblick/single/news/wie-viele-ameisen-gibt-es-eigentlich-1/

    But how many ants are there? […] “According to our estimates, the global ant population is 20 x 10¹⁵ – that is, 20 quadrillion animals. […]”

    Divided by 8 billion yields the 2.5 million per person.

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      [email protected]

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    Where are my personal ants?

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      Mike stole them

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    what am I supposed to do with 2.5 million ants??

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      Give each and every one of them housing and health care. 🖤🐜

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      most of them are pretty small.

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      If you can train each one to bring you a cent you’d be a rich man!

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        You’d need decoy ants too. So no one can follow their trail.

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    So most of them are just living because of reckless abandonment!

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    At an average weight of 2.5 mg per ant that’s 6.25 kg of ants per person or about the weight of a 6 month old human baby.

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      And I could beat the shit out of a 6 month old baby, so I think I’m fine.

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    I hope mine are fire ants!

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      All ants are fire yo

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