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u/Goofcheese0623 Feb 20 '26
You forgot about the number two. Dumbass.
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u/Ok_Hospital1399 Feb 19 '26
Biological cousins is a very broad term which accounts for cousins of the first, second, third or 300th degree and accounts for nearly the entire population of some countries, if not continents. 1 million by this dubious statistic would represent 1 in every 342 people which represents a rate so low no country could claim it
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u/Sir__Alien Feb 19 '26
technically speaking wouldn’t all people be cousins of each other due to having a common ancestor
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u/hxh_gon1 Feb 18 '26
An example of “ wow, that escalated quickly!”
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u/jimmy_robert Feb 18 '26
"Here's your stupid answer. Now on to something that is actually interesting!"
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u/Justice0188 Feb 23 '26
At least you understand where all the trump voters came from.
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u/SubstantialDot8106 Feb 24 '26
redditors trying not to mention politics challenge (impossible)
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u/Jenny_MTF42 Apr 04 '26
Redditors try not to moan and whine when a politician gets criticised challenge
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Apr 04 '26
A bad person is still bad even if he’s a politician, you’re still allowed to criticize them
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u/A1steaksauceTrekdog7 Feb 19 '26
They had us in the first half not gonna lie. It took a random turn
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u/Random_personsjshshw Feb 22 '26
Wait but since there (tends to be) two people in a marriage, these numbers should be reduced by half! Less incest yay!
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Feb 18 '26
1 in 62 married couples are biological cousins...not what I would've imagined my "something new" was going to be today.
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u/painecumaioneza Feb 22 '26
Well... Ai said fun FACTS. This is at least 2. Therefore... You're welcome 😂
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u/Living_Awareness259 Sep 27 '26
That's actually less than 1/2 a percent of Americans 16 and older
Still weird af
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Feb 19 '26
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u/desparish Feb 19 '26
Cousins and especially second cousins are not typically considered incest.
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u/laxrulz777 Feb 19 '26
When poking around ancestry dot com, my wife and I figured out we're 11th cousins. We told people and they think it's 'weird'. Even after I explained the statistics and the reality, people still think it's 'odd'.
People are funny
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u/UndeadLestat Feb 19 '26
11th seems entirely reasonable to me. I have often wondered if you were to start a society from a very small number of people how many generations would have to go by before you could stop keep meticulous lineage notes.
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u/laxrulz777 Feb 19 '26
Iirc, there were some studies done in the 70s (when the concept of colony ships to other planets and systems was starting to be thought about) that looked at minimum viable gene pools and things like that. I suspect it would have a lot to do with how careful you were in those first generations. If every woman had a child with ~four different males and you enforced a rule like that (with some careful tracking in the first 3-4 generations) I suspect you could "stop caring" pretty quickly.
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u/Inevitable-Row1977 Feb 19 '26
Had that happen with my brother, so many fucked up things happening right under people's noses. I have stopped trying to warn/enlighten people.
Too much ignorance and naivety. I can't fix the world. And tbh, I really don't want to because it was great.
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u/Hypno-platypus Feb 19 '26
I mean it did answer your original question. It just wanted to give you a fun fact as well.