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Every generation has some product/ingredient that they didn’t know was dangerous at the time: tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc. What is that item for this generation? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 43 points 3 years ago (11 children)

Have you heard of Dihydrogen monoxide? It literally kills hundreds of thousands of people every single year all over the world, including young children.

You don't hear about it in the news though do you....

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    I'm confused about how it kills hundreds of thousands of people per year. How, by drowning?

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What I think it is, is that every single person who ever consumes it, will eventually die. We are also literally dependant on it. If you stop ingesting it for too long, it can also cause you to die... That's how it went around here, at least.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Look at all of the related "risks" and add them up. I'm sure that drowning is a small number, but then add in all of the deaths from scalding, acid rain, poisons (that contain water), etc etc and it eventually gets to be a very big number. Probably in the millions

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