One of my favorite weird facts. in The Big, Blue House, year one.
- Dec. 5, 2022, 10:11 p.m.
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Because the comments were locked on the post I wanted to put it on, while I was typing it.
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When a corpse is embalmed, at least in the US, the blood is poured down the drain, into the same drainage system as dishwater or bath water.
With more than three million deaths in the US in 2020, and an average of at least eight liters of blood per person, that’s 24,000,000 liters of human blood in the water drainage system over the course of one year. Or 6,349,206 gallons.
I wish some intrepid horror or fantasy writer would use that information in a story.
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Deleted user ⋅ December 05, 2022
A water "purification" system ran by vampires to extract the blood. There's the basis of the story.
Asenath Waite Deleted user ⋅ December 07, 2022
Bwahahaha. I like the way you think.
Deleted user ⋅ December 06, 2022
ewww don't want to think about that. lol
Asenath Waite Deleted user ⋅ December 07, 2022
Lol. My apologies, my humor skews a bit dark.
Sleepy-Eyed John ⋅ December 30, 2022
That's crazy!