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[-] pieceofcrazy@feddit.it 26 points 1 year ago

It's an old (early-internet?) joke iirc. And yes, I think that's the answer

[-] islandofcaucasus@lemmy.world 27 points 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

[-] sadbehr@lemmy.nz 10 points 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.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Wow, talk about preventable deaths...

[-] sadbehr@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

According to its Wikipedia page, this joke was first published in 1983! I suspect most people know it from the early 2000's when it made a resurgence again.

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