Wow. I knew the Amazon river was big, but I just looked it up properly. It's 18% of GLOBAL outflow from all rivers to the ocean, five times bigger by volume than the next biggest river. The Amazon basin is about 5% of all the land, so it really is disproportionately wet. Impressed. - ThreadSky

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helenczerski.bsky.social • 84 days ago

Wow. I knew the Amazon river was big, but I just looked it up properly. It's 18% of GLOBAL outflow from all rivers to the ocean, five times bigger by volume than the next biggest river. The Amazon basin is about 5% of all the land, so it really is disproportionately wet. Impressed.

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mac-interactive.co.uk•81 days ago

Just listening to Rare Earth and I came here to see if you had posted your ‘Mahogany is Murder’ photo 😉
Oddly the last episode about space was missed in my podcast app so I’ve queued it to play next 👍

towerdan.bsky.social•84 days ago

That is a really cool little fact to have in my pocket for when there's a lull in the conversation at a party. I'm fun at parties. BUT, and I'm sorry, but I hate the colors in this graph.