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Percent of all deaths that are caused by injuries: 7.85%

Current global median life expectancy: 75.2 years

LE/I%: ~958 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...

Same but assuming we can avoid transport accidents, ~1354 years.



Interesting to see hard numbers for this, I always felt like those LOTR elves living for 10,000 years in a war torn world is laughably improbable from a statistical perspective.


Tolkien's elves were also (somewhat?) magic, and the designated firstborn of the creator god Ilúvatar with various gifts, seemingly including awareness and dexterity exceeding anything a human could ever do.




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