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		SaltyBackendGuy on May 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest... > the patch is 1.6 million square kilometers Haven't really thought about how big that actually is until now. Basically the size of Mongolia[0] [0] - http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Geography/Lan...

lostcolony on May 14, 2018 [–]

Or for the Americans with little concept of the rest of the world (no judgement; I'm one of them), over twice the size of Texas (which is just under 700k square kilometers).

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