#TenThingsLearnt w/c Dec 2

#TenThingsLearnt w/c Dec 2

1. The Oxford Union voted that Israel was an apartheid state committing genocide.

2. The great pacific garbage patch is bigger than Peru; a thick soup of fragmented plastic.

3. 250,000 tonnes of plastics are in the ocean. We all are literally waste-men.

4. People who identify as White make 7% of the global human population.

5. There are 300 types of Octopuses.

6. George R. R. Martin was a screenwriter before he became a novelist.

7. The belief that we are living in a simulation grows more and more plausible.

8. For 150 years, Latin Americans paid Europeans to “breed out” they’d darker skinned citizens.

9. More enslaved people were taken to the US from Angola than anywhere else.

10. 350,000 African artefacts, including human remains, were found in Cambridge Uni’s archives.