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A healthy human liver contains 575 international units (IU) of vitamin A per gram while a polar bear's liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000. Signs of toxicity generally occur when approximately 25,000 to 33,000 IU are consumed.

Illness severity depended on how much liver the explorers consumed, but symptoms typically included drowsiness, sluggishness, irritability, severe headache, bone pain, blurred vision and vomiting. While milder cases merely involved flaking around the mouth, some accounts reported cases of full-body skin loss. Even the thick skin on the bottoms of a patient's feet could peel away, leaving the underlying flesh bloody and exposed. The worst cases ended in liver damage, hemorrhage, coma and death.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'd sacrifice a polar bear to get rid of a billionaire, ngl.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting statistical question, too. Are there more polar bears still alive than billionaires?

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, tons of them in zoos. Well more than billionaires.

Tho I’d like to see them in zoos instead. Rare animal and all. Worth gawking at the way people back in the day would gawk at the strange “savages” from distant lands..

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd pay to see Elon musk jumping up and down in a zoo enclosure, throwing his shit at the visitors.

[–] Random_German_Name@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You would pay to see Musks Tweets?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The way things are going they won't be around much longer anyhow.

[–] AmIConcious@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I read on here recently that Polar Bears have lived through an age of no Polar ice. Which is quite encouraging think. I edited to paste link to article https://polarbearscience.com/2023/06/16/new-evidence-that-polar-bears-survived-1600-years-of-ice-free-summers-in-the-early-holocene/

[–] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 10 months ago

Fuck. I thought he knew some serious shit & that he was confident that billionaires would not be around much longer

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Sacrificing a whole other species is a chance I'm willing to take"

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If we don't get rid of rich people many more species are going to be sacrificed.

[–] Random_German_Name@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Some of them are going to die, but thats a sacrifice I am willing to make

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I wonder which there is more of....