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Happy Relationships

64% of Americans are happy in their relationships 64% self-reported that they are very happy, in their relationship, with 19% saying they're unhappy. Nearly 50% are happy with their sex lives. CRACKED.COM — Source: Relationships By The Numbers: 13 Statistics About Dating, Breakups, and Marriage

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Lefties

10% of ancient tools uncovered are designed for being left-handed. I'm a lefty CRACKED.COM This indicates that in the last 10,000 years the proportion of the population that is left-handed has re- mained consistent at 10%. — Right Left Right Wrong

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The Ocean Floor

More than eighty percent of the Earth's ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored. CRACKED.COM A far greater percentage of the surfaces of the moon and the planet Mars has been mapped and studied than of our own ocean floor. — National Ocean Service

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Waiting

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

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101 Dalmatians

Raising 101 Dalmatians would cost a fortune. Cost of owning a single dog: $153 per month. X 12 months = $1836 X 101 = $185, 436 per year

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Aging

22% of Americans are over the age of 60. This is much higher than the global percentage of 12, but the rest of the world should catch up by 2050. The percent- age of US senators over 60 is 70%. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Peanut Butter

Peanut butter has to BE 90% peanuts If it's a lower percentage, in the United States, it legally has to BE labeled as peanut spread. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Atlantic

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Obesity

If asked, many people would bet their dollaridoos on the USA being the most obese country in the world. However, by percentage of obese adults, the crown actually goes to small country Nauru, with a 61% obesity rate. CRACKED.COM — Source: World Population Review

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Belly Buttons

90% of people have an innie belly button There are about the same percentage of left-handed people as people with outies. CRACKED.COM — Source: American Museum of Natural History

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Cocaine

Individually, Americans use more cocaine than any other country. The percentage of users in America is only a tenth of a percent higher than Brazil, but Americans use 36% of the world's cocaine, compared to Brazil's 18%. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ABC Network

Due to its lack of sports, ABC has a higher percentage of female viewers (about 62%) and a lower percentage of male viewers than any other network. ab

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Singapore

The highest percentage of millionaires on the planet live in Singapore. GRAGKED.COM Singapore has the world's highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US in disposable wealth. — Wall Street Journal

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Star Trek

Red Shirt, Short Life Number of crew deaths in Star Trek: The Original Series: 59 Number of Red Shirt Deaths: 43 79% of dead crew-members wore red shirts. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Vacant Houses

In the US, the number of vacant houses are six times greater than the number of homeless people. USA Europe Homeless 3.5 million 4.1 million people Vacant 18.5 million 11 million houses The ratio in Europe is less than half that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chef Hats

The number of pleats used to represent the number of recipes mastered. In the 1800s, if you had 100 pleats, it meant you mastered 100 dishes. Now, it'

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Infinity

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM THE OPPOSITE OF INFINITY ISN'T ZERO, IT'S INFINITESIMAL. 1-18 INFINITY IS THE NUMBER LARGER THAN ALL OTHER NUMBERS. INFINITESIMAL IS THE NUMBER SMALLER THAN ALL OTHERS, BUT STILL LARGER THAN ZERO. — Source

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Exoplanets

The number of known exoplanets has doubled every 27 months since they were first discovered. CRACKED.COM Since the first ехо- planets were discov- ered in the early 90s, the number is now over 4,000 of con- firmed findings. — Source

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Auctions

The most expensive phone number was bought for $2.75 million. 321 A 8 9 0 CRACKED.COM The most amount of money paid for a mobile phone number is 10 million QAR ($2.75 million), by an anonymous Qatari bidder for the number 666-6666 during a charity auction. — Economic Times

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Lucky Number 3

The baseball Hall of Famer Larry Walker was fixated on the number 3. CRACKED.COM Не wore number 33, was married on November 3 at 3:33 and his phone number had as many threes as the phone company would al- low. In 1993, he signed a $3 million contract. — Source

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Rational Numbers

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM A RATIONAL NUMBER CAN BE WRITTEN DOWN AS A RATIO, LIKE 3/7. AN IRRATIONAL NUMBER CAN'T BE EXPRESSED THAT WAY - LIKE THE SQUARE ROOT OF TWO, OR PI. LEGEND HAS IT THAT ANCIENT MATHEMATICIAN PYTHAGORAS HAD THE MAN WHO REVEALED THE EXISTENCE OF IRRATIONAL NUMBERS DROWNED. — Source

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Futurama

THE NUMBER 729 SHOWS UP A LOT IN FUTURAMA MERRY XMAS SON #1729 It isn't just a coincidence. 1,729 is Hardy-Ramanujan's number, the smallest number which can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways- in this case, 13 + 123 or 93 103. CRACKED.COM — Gizmodo

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Centipedes

No species of centipede has exactly 100 legs. GRAGKED.COM Despite the name, centi- pedes can have a vary- ing number of legs, ranging from 30 to 382. Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs. — Source

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Shoe Size

CRACKED.COM SHOE STORIES SHOE SIZES ARE INCREDIBLY COMPLICATED. A MAN'S FOOT 10.5 INCHES LONG IS CONSIDERED TO BE: SIZE 9 IN AUSTRALIA SIZE 9.5 IN THE USA SIZE 10 IN MEXICO SIZE 27.5 IN JAPAN SIZE 43.5 IN EUROPE SIZE 44 IN CHINA SIZE 267 IN KOREA — Source

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Walt Disney

CRACKED WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT IS AROUND THE SAME SIZE AS SAN FRANCISCO. At 43 square miles, that makes it twice the size of manhattan. — Source

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Bra Sizes

Average breast size has increased over the last decade. GRAGKED.COM In just the past decade, the average woman's breast size has gone up from a 34B to a 36C. Nearly a quarter of all bras sold are size D or higher, a number that has doubled over the past 3 years. — Source

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Vince McMahon

CRACKED LOSING BILLIONAIRE STATUS BECAUSE OF A BAD TV DEAL In 2014, Vince McMahon lost about $350 million in one day. This was because the WWE's stock price tanked after a bad TV deal, and it was enough to make him no longer a billionaire. — Forbes / NY Post

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Domino’s

During OJ Simpson's infamous Bronco chase, Domino's pizza reported massive sales records. Domlmo' Domlmo' Domlno's 95 million people watched as the sl

13

Friends

Friends continues to generate massive revenue. The show earns $1 billion/year for Warner Bros., which translates into $20 million annually for cast members. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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2012

Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - For the earthquake in 2012, they built a massive, 500,000-ton earthquake rig. — Source: 7 Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't Computers

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Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's famous passive resistance campaigns had massive support from Chinese people. 1 in 9 protestors in the first non-violent movement, sta

10

Squirrels

9 percent to 21 percent of unexpected power outages are caused by squirrels. Over 4,700 animal-related (most of which are squirrels) outages were reco

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Mislabeled Fish

One-third of all fish sold in restaurants and grocery stores is mislabeled. CRACKED.COM This is often to deliberate- ly mislead consumers and get them to buy more ex- pensive fish. Snapper was found to be mislabeled 87 percent of the time, tuna was mislabeled 59 percent. — Source

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The Human Body

CRACKED CON Your body houses trillions of microorganisms, percent of which are unknown to science. — Source

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Contract Killings

5 percent CRACKED.COM From 1993 to 2002, 5% of murders in Scotland were contract killings. — Source

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Green Eyes

Only 2 percent of the population has green eyes. CRACKED.COM Green eyes are more common in females than males. Less than 1 percent have gray eyes. — Soource: Healthline

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Personal Trainers

CRACKED.COM The majority of working personal trainers aren't a bunch of dumb jocks. Sixty-four percent have a bachelor's degree, and over forty percent have a master's. — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Intelligence

CRACKED MYTH: MOST PEOPLE OF AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE ONLY USE 10 PERCENT OF THEIR BRAINS (AS SEEN IN: LUCY) FACT: Everyone, of varying levels of intelligence, uses 100 percent of their brain. There is no basis for this myth at all. — Source

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Frozen Water

69 percent of Earth's water that is not in the ocean is frozen. CRACKED.COM Of the three percent of the water that is not in the ocean, about 69 percent is locked up in glaciers and icecaps. Ninety percent of that frozen water is in Antarctica and about nine percent covers Greenland. — National Ocean Service

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Volunteer Firefighters

CRACKED COM A whopping SIXTY PERCENT of firefighters are volunteers. Coincidentally, SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT of fire departments are made up entirely out o

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DNA

Children of identical twins are genetically siblings, not cousins. GRACKED.COM Cousins whose parents are identical twins share 25 percent of their DNA, instead of the usual 12.5 percent, making them ge- netically the equivalent of half-siblings. — Source

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