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aruexperienced t1_iuh8wz6 wrote

Considering the worlds population is only 7.8bn thats quite a number there.

The real answer is The British Empire. It owned a massive chunk of the planet at one point. The US and UK then went on to be culturally dominating via music, books, films, law etc.

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18_USC_47 t1_iujcar1 wrote

What's 2,000,000,000 people? Just a small amount off.

Even then, there's another premise issue with the post since pretty much every estimate of English speakers being only about 1.5 billion.

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