40 Stats and Math Facts Better Than When You Learned to Spell Bad Words on Your Graphing Calculator

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40 Stats and Math Facts Better Than When You Learned to Spell Bad Words on Your Graphing Calculator

If you think that your calculator can’t be entertaining, then you’ve never asked it the right questions. You’re like the guy at a concert with his arms crossed in the back, not even bopping his head. Give the band a little energy to feed off of, and they’ll give that energy right back to you. Then pop a few of these into that dusty old Texas Instrument of yours and watch it blast some wild stats and figures back at you.

Give a little, get a little!

The Internet

WE LIVE IN A GLOBAL VILLAGE. WELL, HALF OF US DO. While the number gn of Internet users is constantly on pp the rise, so far only 3.7 billion (out 7.5

A Million vs. A Billion

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM A THOUSAND SECONDS IS ABOUT 16 MINUTES. 12 17 III 9 3 12 11 10 mella A MILLION SECONDS IS ABOUT ONE AND A HALF WEEKS. A BILLION SECONDS IS ALMOST 32 YEARS.

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Shuffling a Deck of Cards

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.

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Spirituality

CRACKED According to a study in which 275 elite scientists were interviewed, 20 percent of them, who identified as atheists also said they were spi

Lord of the Rings

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies were shot in the exact same number of days: 266. 1OH ATHY RTCTOK od HTLORB O IE AENCE Then why are they

Chances of Being Born

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.

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Base 10 Number System

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM WE USE A BASE TEN NUMBER SYSTEM, BUT WITH A BASE TWELVE SYSTEM IT IS ACTUALLY EASIER TO DO SOME MATH AND FRACTIONS. IN BASE TWELVE, ONE-THIRD IS WRITTEN AS 0.4 INSTEAD OF 0.333... THE DOZENAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA PROMOTES SWITCHING OVER TO A BASE 12 SYSTEM.

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American Farmers

Percentage of American workforce employed in farming in: 1840 70% 2017 1.3%

Dice

Want to roll a certain number? Start the roll with the desired number on top! Dice are slightly more likely to land showing the same number that was o

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