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[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Additionally, the average brain is about 1300 grams. 0.5% of 1300 is 6.5 grams, and plastic credit cards weigh roughly 5 grams.

0.5% is really hard for me to visualize. A credit card in everyone's brain is unfortunately easy.....