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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.
77 Comments
LeoSpec
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Level 43
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.)
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 92
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.
Xenobiologista
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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.
joeythelemur
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Level 80
May 5, 2021
"Big owners"???
brandybuck96
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Level 82
Mar 5, 2025
Portugal was by far the biggest trader in enslaved people. Nothing to do with the USA. Nevertheless, the "only" in the fact downplays it a bit, the numbers should have been roundly zero.
BlackLab
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Level 66
Sep 16, 2018
I read the whole interest facts in one sitting. Not many people know that.
WolfCam
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Level 67
Sep 18, 2018
Intersting
Insaniot
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Sep 25, 2018
Intersting
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 92
Sep 30, 2018
This is my inter-resting period right now.
qcumber
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Level 45
Nov 12, 2018
interesting
HinesBrothers
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Level 78
Sep 24, 2019
Interesting
OceanSunfish
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Nov 24, 2019
Interesting
TheRockObanga
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Level 43
May 12, 2020
Interesting
P3nguin
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Level 77
Jul 29, 2020
Interesting
Xenobiologista
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Sep 16, 2020
Interesting
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Oct 29, 2020
Interesting
NV1
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Nov 15, 2020
Interesting
Oatmeal11
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Mar 14, 2021
Interesting
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Apr 11, 2021
Interesting
BigFloppa
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May 14, 2021
interesting
AntiMatter8192
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Oct 4, 2021
Interesting
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Oct 6, 2021
Interesting
EytanMelech
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Nov 15, 2021
Intersting
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Dec 3, 2021
Interesting
MG17
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Feb 1, 2022
Interesting
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Feb 2, 2022
Intresting
ShievaAndGolly
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Apr 22, 2022
stinginter
Night1224
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Apr 26, 2022
Interesting
ilikegeography18
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May 12, 2022
Interesting...
tcookiem
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May 30, 2022
Intresting
hasanabdi
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Sep 12, 2022
intéressant
LightningPal
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Oct 13, 2022
Interesting
Neodymium
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Mar 20, 2023
Interesting
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Jun 9, 2023
Interesting
Pdogs
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Apr 30, 2024
Intersting
McKenzieFam
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Jun 2, 2024
Interesting
langleypark
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Jul 18, 2025
Intersting
CrypticMessage
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Jan 9, 2026
Interesting
GeoPhilia
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Mar 12, 2020
I also
Malbaby
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Level 70
Sep 5, 2020
I didn't
spaghetti07
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Level 63
Dec 13, 2020
Interesting
hugopernia
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Level 56
Dec 13, 2020
Uhm... Interesting?
DarthKnight
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Feb 4, 2022
intersetinge
JamesWood
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Dec 7, 2022
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AlexThirkell
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Level 74
Dec 21, 2020
Interestin'. And you saved Page 34 for last?
Insaniot
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Level 63
Feb 2, 2022
You might find this interesting: back in 2018, there used to only be 34 pages of interesting facts.
Eomer
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Level 36
Feb 6, 2024
Interesting
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 92
Sep 30, 2018
How many bike sheds are they building in North Cyprus?
morcaca
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Level 59
Sep 15, 2020
Is the bike shed in Europe or Asia? And there’s a football shed, what does that mean?
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Oct 1, 2018
To be clear, nuclear war is extremely bad. But even so, most people in the world would survive it.
WolfCam
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Level 67
Oct 3, 2018
Crap I live in one of those countries
sacheth9
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Level 65
Jun 18, 2020
same
GeoDude
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Level 46
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.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
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.
tom88
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Level 77
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
joeythelemur
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Level 80
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.
MyrmidonPantheon
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Level 57
May 12, 2025
Sorry to interrupt, but I could not find your comment anywhere else.

Just update the Indian Slavery fact. Its outdated. And offensive to some people.

qcumber
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Level 45
Nov 12, 2018
I thought that said Pakistan's law of triviality. very confused until reread.
kalbahamut
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Level 79
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?
Insaniot
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Level 63
Apr 9, 2019
The fact that this was commented on April Fools Day makes it even better.
roleybob
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Level 73
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?

tom88
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Level 77
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.
roleybob
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Level 73
Jan 16, 2020
Sure, it's terrible. I just don't see why the number is being compared to the US number
Djilas
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Level 86
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.
MyrmidonPantheon
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Level 57
May 12, 2025
That info is old dude. The number has reduced to about 8 million as of 2025. And is projected to decline even more. The leaders are good nowadays.
SWATkun
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Level 59
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

The Dark secrets behind your favourite make-up products

MyrmidonPantheon
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Level 57
May 12, 2025
Numbers reducing rapidly dude. IK its bad. But why compare to a country with about a 50th of our population (1860 US)
AchillesFirstStand
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Level 79
Nov 25, 2020
It's over 1%, not 0.01%
joeythelemur
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Level 80
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%.
MyrmidonPantheon
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Level 57
May 12, 2025
Then that aint true. I have travelled all across India. Never seen any case. Especially considering I traveled with my IPS (police officer) friend. He was in charge of this matter for some years. He only got less than 100 cases in about 4 yrs.
pewp3w
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Level 59
Jul 15, 2025
Oh yeah, you haven't seen it, so it does not happen? That's not valid.

Global Slavery Index assumes 11 Million Slaves for India in 2023, but this apparently also contains child labour, forced begging and forced marriage.

MyrmidonPantheon
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Level 57
May 12, 2025
While it was more than 10% in the US.
PhantomMaster
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Level 33
May 13, 2020
because everyone looks at the US civil war, not so much other revolutions/civil wars
Malbaby
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Level 70
Dec 8, 2020
170 ....... caused much fun when handing on the baton in the relay races.
Felixcroc
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Level 68
Feb 24, 2022
#169 is good right about now
Huskerne7
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Level 29
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.
6jam987
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Level 19
Jan 26, 2026
Like in the game fallout
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