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33 Trivia Tidbits About Unbelievable Statistics

September 22, 2024

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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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CRACKED.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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CRACKED.COM In late 2008 and early 2009, 1in5 BOOKS SOLD was written by Stephenie Meyer. — Source

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BLACK WIDOWS ARE RUTHLESS AND DEADLY. SO, SO DEADLY. 1% OF THE TIME. Most of the time, a black widow won't even inject any venom into its bite. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EATING DISORDERS ARE A FEMALE PROBLEM. 25% of anorexia & bulimia sufferers, and 40% of binge eaters, are OZ LA men. Olbs 320 300 DE S 10 09 145 SI O 20 25 DI Many men ODI 082 by 08 SEL 30 130 280 SE don't get 125 06 OF OZZ 120 help because SV 260 50 001 115 052 110 OIL they're SS CRACKED.COM 105 240 100 OZ embarrassed. 95 DEI 06 DEZ no 60 65 70 L — Source

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In the movies, a gunshot wound means you're dead, period. BUT... As long as your heart is still beating when you arrive at the hospital, you have a 95% chance of surviving a gunshot wound. CRACKED.COM — Source

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95 billion packets of ramen noodles are sold every Year. Yeah, those ramen noodles. HIM HGN This is according to the World Instant Noodle Association, and, when you do the math, adds up to 15 packs of noodles for every human being on Earth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper each Year. That's 1/5 of all the TP in the world, even though the U.S. makes up only 4% of the global population. CRACKED.COM — Source

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When we talk about climate change, people love to make jokes about farting cows. But cow farts aren't a thing. 0092 Cows do emit methane, but 95% of it comes from burping. They belch because they're ruminants, and burping is part of their digestive process. CRACKED GOM — Source

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Heart attacks increase by 24% on the Monday after Daylight Savings Time kicks in. Researchers speculate that the spike has to do with a disruption in circadian rhythms and cortisol levels. And, unsurprisingly, stress. CRACKED.COM — 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 HOLLYWOOD Films released (2012-2013): 738 Hollywood gets all the press, but Bollywood is so much bigger. BOLLYWOOD Films released (2012-2013): 1724 — Source

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CRACKED.COM At its peak, with over 80 million players, Farmville was the most popular game on Facebook. FARMWiLLE zynga FAR FIRMVirTE nga FARM ViLLE zynga If each of these players actually ran a modest 100 acre farm, they would require more than FOUR TIMES all the land in the lower 48 states. — 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 Mathematicians have found 12.1 trillion digits of pi as of present. When written in a straight line on a to the Sun and back. piece of paper, that paper PINOM stretch E8864979 3 — Source

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McDonald's serves 75 burgers per second, every of the year. second of the day, every day The weight of the COWS needed in one year to make their beef is virtually the same weight of the entire human population of Maryland. GRACKED COM — 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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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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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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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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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 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 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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