There’s nothing like a graph of death to blast those morning cobwebs away – so enter this humbling depiction of ‘The 20 Deadliest Events in Human History’.
Though the short orange bars give us a vague estimate of the death toll at the time, it’s the frighteningly far-reaching grey bars that show the equivalent number of lives lost if it had happened today.
While the Second World War still holds the record for the deadliest conflict of our time, the crown truly belongs to Genghis Khan.
If the great Mongol lived today his rampage would have annihilated millions, wiping out entire civilisations across modern-day Asia.
It takes a certain breed of individual to be listed as a ‘Cause of Death’ next to the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Fall of Rome – but he manages it, along with Joseph Stalin.
This infographic is annoyingly vague, and a few illustrations of menacing faces wouldn’t have gone amiss, but considering the content I guess an ugly, grey format speaks for itself.
In any case, it certainly shines some perspective onto your bad cup of coffee.