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30 Trivia Tidbits About Unbelievable Statistics

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30 Trivia Tidbits About Unbelievable Statistics

August 06, 2024

If you’re a fan of the site, you know that we have no shortage of unbelievable facts. So unbelievable that you’ve probably dipped over to Google for some fact-checking of your own. Since that might be the case, we decided to go with facts about numbers. Numbers don’t lie. They’ve been measured by the pros, and like any good numbers, they add up.

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If you get bitten by a venomous snake in the desert, prepare to meet your maker. Out of the 7,000 to NAH, YOU'LL 8,000 people who are BE FINE. bitten by venomous snakes in the U.S. each year, only five die. Photo Getty Creative GRACKED.COM http://www.aphis.usda.gov/emergency_response/downloads/health/Appendix%203-6-E%20R — Source

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Think men think about sex every 7 seconds? Yeah, that's crap. In fact, experts estimate that 30% of men don't think about sex during the day at all. Photo Getty Creative CRACKED.COM http://abcnews s.go.com/Primetime/PollVault/story?id=156921&page=1 — Source

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EATING DISORDERS ARE A FEMALE PROBLEM. 25% of anorexia & bulimia sufferers, and 40% of binge eaters, are (a 20 men. 0lbs 320 DE S 10 300 19 145 SI 140 O 25 20 OZ Many men 062 or SEI DE 130 08 280 SE don't get help 06 OF 120 because they OIL SP 50 001 don't want to 097 SU OIL Photo: Gett Creative SS seem feminine. 052 OLL 240 07 09 SOL CRACKED.COM 00L DEZ 20 — 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 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 LEFT-HANDEDNESS IN SPORTS Lefties have a statistical advantage in sports that involve direct one-on-one interaction, like baseball, tennis, and boxing. This is because they are a bit of a surprise, since most opponents aren't used to facing someone who is left-handed. — Source

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CRACKED GENETIC INFLUENCE ON GENDER OF OFFSPRING According to a Newcastle University study of hundreds of years of family trees, men who had more brothers were more likely to have sons, and those with more sisters were more likely to have daughters. This pattern wasn't seen in women. — Source

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CRACKED FURNITURE VS TERRORISM A 2015 study showed that the chances of getting hurt or killed by a terrorist in the US are really small. In fact, you're more likely to get crushed to death by falling TVs or furniture than by a terrorist. — 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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CRACKED.COM Over 80908 of sexually active adults will catch an STD at some point. Most will never know, as many STDs show no symptoms. — Source

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GRAGKED.COM The budget for the Curiosity rover is about the same amount the U.S. military spends in a little over 30 HOURS. — Source

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In 2018, Nike's shares had a two percent drop after the launch of its campaign, which featured the controversial American footballer Colin Kaepernick. inicerecct But the drop doesn't have to do with Colin being featured in the campaign as many have claimed, since Adidas and Puma also had the same percentage drop, which may have had to do more with the markets' strong run prior to the incident. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hippos kill 3,000 PEOPLE every year. Sharks kill fewer than six. Where are all the Hipponado movies? CRACKED. COM — Source

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Since 1989, 365 convicted prisoners have been exonerated by DNA evidence. 28% had confessed. 20 were on death row. CRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM According to British surveys, over 25% of children stop doing things they love, and almost 50% hide a talent, out of fear of being bullied. — Source

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You've probably heard that the U.S. incarcerates large numbers of people. For example, in 2019, 2,282,800 people are locked up. But over 540,000 of those are just awaiting trial behind bars. Most of them are there because they can't pay bail, and most of them won't get a prison sentence. Without them, there are 1,742,800 incarcerated people in 2019 - nearly a quarter lower than the reported figure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The average person spends FIVE YEARS OF THEIR LIFE waiting in line. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM 1 MEDAL & 5 OLLAK I S Adam Sandler movies have grossed OVER $5 BILLION worldwide. — Source

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The cast of Glee has had 207 SONGS on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That's three times as many as the Beatles. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A full 70% OF GUNS seized by police in Mexico can be traced back to the United States. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Over A DOZEN SPECIES go extinct every day. Up to 50% of all species could be near extinction by 2050. — Source

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Pre-Columbian American cities were huge. GRACKED.COM Lower estimates of the population of Tenochtitlan (in what's today Mexico City) put it at 200,000, putting it among the top three biggest cities in the world. Higher estimates peg it at 400,000. — Source

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Brazil received four million African slaves. CRACKED COM That's during the entire Atlantic Slave Trade and was over ten times the number that went to the United States. When Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, 40 percent of Rio were slaves, — Source

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Germans have made up the bulk of US immigrants. GRACKED.COM Between 1870 and 2000, seven million immigrants to the US were Germans, making them the country that sent the most people during this time. — Source

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Gandhi had huge support among Chinese people. CRACKED COM When his non-violent movement started, one in nine protesters were Chinese. By 1911? His imprisoned supporters included more Chinese than Indians. — Source

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Only two Wall Street people leapt off buildings in '29. CRACKED.COM NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE And only one was a stock broker, despite the myth of scores of brokers jumping to their deaths. In fact, the suicide rate in New York dropped from where it had been when the market was better. — Source

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Women owned 40% of property in Sparta. CRACKED.COM Sparta, unlike a whole lot of places at the time, had an inheritance system where the deceased would split their property among all their children, both sons and daughters. — Source

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D-Day was more a British operation than American. CRACKED.COM Eisenhower commanded Allied forces, but D-Day had 892 British warships and only 200 American ones, 800 British planes to 400 American ones, 113,000 British naval men to 53,000 Americans. — Source

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China lost 20 million people to World War II. CRACKED.COM Russia's loss is often overlooked, but China's is far more overlooked and is nearly as big. China's civilian toll, at 16 million, was even more than Russia's. — Source

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