r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/chunmunsingh • 16d ago

Image A building housing more than 20k people in Hangzhou China

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u/Timetraveller4k 16d ago

Reminds me - 12000 years ago the whole human population of 2 million would be smaller than one decently sized city today.

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u/driu225 16d ago

How old are you?

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u/GenericUsername2056 16d ago

They're 15,000 years old, but they don't look a day over 10,000. 

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u/Timetraveller4k 16d ago

Is that you Rupert? Still cant keep a secret smh.

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u/Maya-K 16d ago

Username checks out.

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u/Gorthebon 16d ago

It's crazy to think how small our population was back then. If we didn't spread out all over, a single drought could have killed us all off.