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notaliberal2021 t1_ja7h3g2 wrote

Not any longer.

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YVRJon t1_ja8r0un wrote

There are now; for a few years, there were four popes/km^(2).

(Area of Vatican City is 0.44 km^(2))

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notaliberal2021 t1_ja9qhmv wrote

There is only one living Pope.

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YVRJon t1_ja9qln1 wrote

Yes, but for several years there was a Pope Emeritus

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notaliberal2021 t1_jaa838g wrote

The joke was in the present tense.

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YVRJon t1_jaa89zt wrote

Yes, and because the area of Vatican City is slightly under half a square km, the single Pope gives a Papal density of a little over 2 per square km.

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crashespad t1_ja9tbzz wrote

75% of all statistics are made up... Including this one.

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ZacharyS94 t1_ja9qc82 wrote

Side splitting, that. In what world does a bit of trivia pass as a joke?

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D3veated t1_ja9hzai wrote

The Vatican is 0.17 square miles. As long as there's at least one pope in the country, then that's about 5.88 popes per square mile.

Now, if the pope is only there 1/3 of the time, then the math checks out.

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Hesquiat t1_ja9z7qy wrote

It’s funny because they’re pretending miles are kilometres, in a deadpan tone so that somebody might think it’s just a confused American

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