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34 Trivia Tidbits About Unbelievable Statistics

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34 Trivia Tidbits About Unbelievable Statistics

July 05, 2024

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CRACKED.COM The most overpaid actor in 2017 was Mark Wahlberg, whose films only grossed $4.40 for every buck he was paid. The best value actor for the same year was Jeremy Renner, with box office returns of $93.80 for each dollar he made. — Source

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There are more than 2,600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame GODZILLA 17 are dedicated to fictional characters GRAGKED CON — Source

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CRACKED COM There are over 300,000 species of beetles currently identified. get by with a little help from my friends... This represents nearly 30% of ALL KNOWN ANIMAL SPECIES. — Source

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GRAGKED COM BS An average French kiss transfers 80 million bacteria The population of France is almost 67 million — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations... To solve all of them, even doing one per second, would take over 100 times the age of the universe. — Source

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A blue whale can eat up to 40 million tiny krill in a single day, which total in weight to about 7,900 lbs. That's more than the weight of most Hummers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Americans use and dispose of 100,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags each year. If the average bag is around 12 inches in length, laying them end to end would stretch around the equator... Twice. Per day. Walmart CRACKED.COM — Source

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The largest found prime number is 5 9 4 8 6 7 5 04 4 6 10 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 3 1 1 2 1 6 10 9 6 2 3 3 4 7 45 1 10 8 7 45 1 10 8 4 8 4 J 9 ( 6 7 6 7 6 7 7 9 2 6 5 5 2 10 5 1 9 l 1 1 9 6 3 8 3 10 de 2 7 8 7 10 2 7 8 10 5 4 10 5 7 3 8 5 3 5 1 — Source

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Rats B OVERALL, BAD CHEFS CRACKED.COM They're more than just an annoyance. Between their effect on crops and how they attack stored grain, it's possible they eat or contaminate 10% of all food. — Source

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Guns kill, right? B GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE? CRACKED.COM Sure. But if you make it to the hospital with your heart still beating, you have a 95% of surviving. — Source

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Three-Mile Island NO CHERNOBYL CRACKED.COM The accident didn't blast the surroundings with killer radiation. The effect on those nearby was equal to one-sixth of a chest X-ray. — Source

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America's Revolution B DIVIDED STATES CRACKED COM Not everyone wanted independence. By John Adams' estimate, one-third did, one-third were apathetic, and another third were loyal to the British. — Source

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American lawns B WE SPEND MORE ON BEER GRACKED.COM Americans spend about $40 billion per year on lawns! Which works out to about $25 per household per month, which arguably isn't that much ... — Source

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The Defense budget B #1: ERITREA CRACKED COM People think America's is the highest, but then America is a big, rich country. In terms of military spending divided by GDP, America's isn't even in the world's top 20. — Source

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Venomous snakes B MILD DANGER NOODLES CRACKED.COM Snakes aren't that deadly, even ignoring all the truly harmless ones. Some 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the US annually. Just five die. — Source

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Men and sex HE'S THINKING ABOUT STEAK GRACKED.COM Men think about sex every seven seconds. Nope. In polls, 30 percent don't think about sex most days ... and if they're lying, well, that just emphasizes how this stat is impossible to measure. — Source

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Standby BE power DON'T UNPLUG CRACKED.COM Appliances used to waste billions of dollars sucking electricity even when off. That's no longer true. Standby power consumption has dropped 90% in two decades. — Source

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Plane crashes B SAFEST WAY TO TRAVEL CRACKED.COM They don't have to be deadly. When you factor in how many crashes are really quite minor, your chance of survivng if your plane crashes is over 95 percent. — Source

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Think your cat is plotting to kill you? In the U.S. between 2004 - 2015 there were 10 cases involving dogs shooting their owners... ...Versus only 1 case involving a cat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The odds of dating a supermodel: 1 in 88,000 The odds of getting a royal flush in poker: 1 in 649,739 You are 7 times more likely to date a supermodel than getting a royal flush! CRACKED.COM — Source

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You have a 1 in 11.5 million chance of getting attacked by a shark... ...Which is still more likely than winning the Powerball (1 in 175 CRS million). LOTTER P o W E NEW JERSEY LOTTERY R E BALL P o ٤ POWERPLAY P POWERPLAY:NO CASH VALUE POWERPLAY CASH VAL 30.00 visit njlotter PWRB$$ - ANNOL : roas DOOO PPB are bood MOOOD ..... 54, NUNNN NWNNA NOODON NAAAA 55g U-NNO RETAILER people Wed Feb0 N-NWW NNG-7 31298 There who 12 still 31298200 refuse numerous NUMBER swim in the IT ocean, but love to play S WINE $2 POWERBALL WITH — Source

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1 out of every 2,000-3,000 babies is born with a tooth. GRACKED.COM — Source

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If you are born in Australia and live to be 70, you have a 66% chance of getting skin cancer. CRACKED.COM According to the Cancer Council of Australia: Two in three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70. And 95% of melanomas will be caused by sunburns. — Source

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CRACKED COM ARE YOU AFRAID OF BEING ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN A TERROR ATTACK? CHILL. YOU ARE 1860 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE HIT BY A WORLD-ENDING ASTEROID THAN GETTING BOMBED BY A TERRORIST. ODDS OF DYING IN A TERROR ATTACK=1/9.3 MILLION ODDS OF EARTH BEING HIT BY A HUGE ASTEROID - 1/5 5000 — Source

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The odds of returning to a meaningful GRAGKED.COM quality of life three months after getting CPR treatment is about 3%. 36 11 27 13 SZ 6 34 17 2 21 4 6 That's only slightly better than picking the correct number on a single roulette spin. — Source

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CRACKED HANGMAN It turns out that the most difficult word to guess in Hangman is jazz. It's made up of 75% uncommon letters (J and Z) and you only get three chances to get it right. — Source

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CRACKED SHUFFLING A DECK OF CARDS It's almost impossible to shuffle a deck of cards into the exact same order twice - it's like trying to arrange the same number of atoms as there are in our entire galaxy. So it's almost certain that every single shuffled deck of cards, ever, is unique. — Source

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CRACKED DOPPELGANGERS The chances of having an exact twin are pretty slim - only one in 135. But if you look at the bigger picture - attributes like the overall shape of your face-it's more likely that you have a doppelganger out there. — Source

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CRACKED H BER BIRTHDAY PARADOX There's a roughly 50% chance that if you get a group of 23 people together, two of them will have the same birthday. — Source

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CRACKED CHANCE OF BEING BORN It's incredibly unlikely that you were born - the odds that all 150,000 generations of your lineage would remain unbroken are about one in 400 trillion. So ... go and make the most of it. — Source

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CRACKED SUPER WT ROAD BISHOPSGATE MAYP BOUR 1. KINGS ROAD COLLECT €600k 2. KE £2M AS YOU PASS CMM GO MONOPOLY In the US version of Monopoly, the orange group of properties - St James Place, Tennessee Avenue, and New York Avenue - are statistically the likeliest spots for players to land when they get out of Jail. So: buy those. — Source

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CRACKED GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING It's really unlikely that you'll get hit by lightning in any given year - almost a one-in-a-million chance. Most people who do get struck by lightning make it out alive, with around 90% of them surviving. — Source

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CRACKED RISK OF DYING ON ONE'S BIRTHDAY People are 14-18% more likely to die on their birthday than any other day of the year. That's according to a major Swedish study, and one of the authors says We can only speculate on the reasons for the extra deaths on birthdays. — Source

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CRACKED FLIPPING A PENNY When you flip a penny, it's more likely to land on tails than heads. That's because the penny's center of mass is slightly more on the heads side, making tails come up about 80% of the time. — Source

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