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I am not sure why it is thought-provoking for a website to lie to you? There is plenty of real history and demography to read about.

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That is exactly what is thought provoking. Usually we only learn glimpses of history, not a full distribution about it.

For example my draw died as a newborn (allegedly 50% died before 5), which made me think how many humans never really got to experience life.

Yeah I think this is it. I played a few times and at one point I was a woman and the average number of children women had was 6 or 7 primarily because most children died pretty early at that time.

Was the story or stats true? I dunno. But it makes sense, and I poked around some of the sources and it was just fun to play with.

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