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Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

goes to moon

Sea of Tranquility

Nooooooo!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Earth's atmosphere is an ocean of gas. The ocean is an atmosphere of liquid. Words are made up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Yea, for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A teaspoon of seawater typically contains about fifty million viruses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_viruses

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sharks are older than trees and the north star.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And some living sharks are more than 200 years old, probably.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

We are killing the ocean by increasingly acidifying it. This has been known by scientists for decades.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But have you thought of the benefit? Free club soda!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

All crabs are now soft shell crabs! Think of the deliciousness!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Norwegian fjords are freaking deep. When you're on the shore of Sognefjord, you're standing in front of a 1300m deep canyon filled with ocean water.

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