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28 Stats and Figures to Bring Your Brain Juice to a Roiling Boil

September 05, 2024

Forget your mid-day coffee. You’re not going to need it. Just one sip of this list will pep your brain right up. As you scroll on down, you’ll probably even wake up parts of your brain that have been sleepy for years. Honestly, with the sheer number of these little fact sips, you might want to read half now, and the other half before dinner. For that early evening pick-me-up.

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8 Statistics state that around 27 people die every year due to working around elevators. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - Counterpoint: Andre the Giant was French, and he never surrendered. Checkmate! (Also, France has won tw — Source

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Standby Power

Statistics That Change How You See the World - Appliances used to waste billions of dollars sucking electricity even when off. That’s no longer true. — Source

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Mathematicians' job growth will be over 5 times higher than the average als occupation's. 1 rez or M Rt-2+ 1L-2 I Al Aé-2 LATHEA M im2 4 R imb_1 AUAD RLM ALA, Al-21 ما B3-, TRUE le + Qu GB12 m Le e I I AlizAlon A LMN ok The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects An-1 job growth for mathematicians between 2018 and 2028 to be 26%. The average for all occupations is 5%. Why? Businesses now have so much data that's so complex, they need mathematicians to analyze it (even statisticians aren't cutting it anymore). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Men and Sex

Statistics That Change How You See the World - “Men think about sex every seven seconds.” Nope. In polls, 30 percent don’t think about sex most days . — Source

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90% of the entire Indian population got one dose of the COVID vaccine. Vaccine VIRUS And, according to the latest statistics, India's recovery rate is 98.38%. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - Americans spend about $40 billion per year on laws! Which works out to about $25 per household per mont — Source

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‘Dangerous’ Neighborhoods

Dangerous neighborhoods aren't particularly dangerous. Yes, some neighborhoods have a high crime rate, but statistics alone don't make them less safe than other places. Crime is pretty much concentrated in highly specific areas, among highly specific people. You're not more likely to be robbed in a bad neighborhood than anywhere — Source

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Solar Panels

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, solar photovoltaic installers are the fastest growing occupation. By 2026, the number of workers in that profession will more than double. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Logging: Not Safe.

CRACKED LOGGER Logging workers are way more likely to die on the job than police officers - 8 times more likely, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - It wasn’t exactly a case of mass death. Only 35 of those aboard died (out of 97). One person on the gr — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - Snakes aren’t that deadly, even ignoring all the truly harmless ones. Some 8,000 people are bitten by v — Source

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Nearly all cases of rickets disappeared when common foods began being fortified with vitamin D. VITAMIN D This took the statistics of approximately 80-90% of children showing varying degrees of bone defor- mations due to vitamin D deficiency, to being a very rare condition. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Asian people drive worse

Asians are bad drivers. For an ethnic group that supposedly has bad driving written into their genetic code, they sure get into very few road accidents. According to 2006 statistics by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Native Americans had the highest fatality rate on the road: 31.17 per 100,000 people, followed by Native Hawaiians, which was 13.90. The fatality rate of Asian people? 4 out of 100,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hockey

Sports Reinvented 20 O УМЕ HOCKEY IS PHASING OUT THE VIOLENCE The NHL's arms race of enforcers bare knuckle boxing on skates has all but silenced. With stricter rules against retaliation, fight statistics decline each year, with more focus on speed and skill. CRACKED — Source

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Taxi drivers: high risk.

CRACKED DUTY VA 8G89 DUTY OFF BCB8 2.50 INITIAL FARE $1.43 PEA A MINUTE - $100 MONDAY-FRIDAY 6-EPM $0.50 NIGHTS - LAW FLAT PARS ESTATE TAXI DRIVER Taxi drivers are in big danger when it comes to homicide. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on average, 23.7 out of every 100,000 taxi drivers got killed each year from 1993 to 2002. — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - They’re more than just an annoyance. Between their effect of crops and how they attack stored grain, it — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - They don’t have to be deadly. When you factor in how many crashes are really quite minor, your chance o — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - Heard that suicide rates skyrocket around Christmas? Actually, the rate is lowest in December. The suic — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - Not everyone wanted independence. By John Adams’ estimate, one-third did, one-third were apathetic, and — Source

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CRACKEDC Librarians a dyingjob? NOPE trerryokooy According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment rate for librarians is expected to grow b — Source

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Florence Nightingale

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Smoking has steadily been dropping in the US since 1965, and it is expected to be obsolete by 2050! Statistics by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC — Source

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Statistics That Change How You See the World - People think America’s is the highest, but then America is a big, rich country. In terms of military sp — Source

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CRACKED.COM Burglars only strike at night, SO it's okay to turn off the alarms during the day. Not according to the FBI. Their statistics show that break-ins happen twice more often during the day than at night. — Source

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Unbelievable Statistics

Only five states had no lynchings from 1883 to 1968. Those states were Alaska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. (The Chicago Tribune started tracking stats in 1882, and the Tuskegee Institute stopped in 1968.) — Source

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Sammy Sosa

CRACKED UBS NO HALL OF FAME FOR THESE STEROID-ERA BASEBALL PLAYERS. The career stats of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa would otherwise make them HoF locks, but in 2022, the Baseball Writers' Association rejected them for a 10th and final time because of performance enhancing drugs. — Source

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