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37 Inconceivable Stats and Figures That Will Exponentially Multiply in Your Brain

February 05, 2025

After reading these facts about wildly outrageous numbers, don’t be surprised if you start feeling an immense amount of pressure in your brain. They pack such a big informational punch that they expand a brain to the point of pushing up against its skull walls. The problem is, even after people are warned, they go ahead and read them anyway. We guess they’re just that intrigued.

If you’re like those people, maybe just keep an ice pack on hand.

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Birth Rate

CRACKED SAME NUMBER OF KIDS WANTED, FEWER KIDS BORN. GO FIGURE. The amount of babies being born in the U.S. has gone down significantly since 2007, even though the amount of kids that people say they want hasn't changed. — Ground Picture/Shutterstock
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Cave Lions

The American cave lion roamed North America 11,000 years ago. x At 925 pounds, it was one of the largest known cats, almost 25 percent bigger than the lions we see in Africa today. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — CBC

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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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Plane Crashes

Plane crashes are rare, but surviving one seems almost impossible. But of the 53,487 people involved in plane crashes in the U.S. from 1983 to 2000, 51,207 survived. That's nearly a 96 percent survival rate. And that number is still holding at 95.7%. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Art Theft

Rembrandt's Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III has been stolen 4 times The 9x12 inch painting has been nicknamed the takeaway Rembrandt as its small size has led to its numerous thefts. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Now-You-Know Facts From Art History

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The Sun

The sun is as big as one million earths. Solar image by - Beady It also accounts for 99.8% of our solar system's mass. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Huge Snowflake

Huge examples of normally small things The biggest recorded snowflake A ranch owner in Montana found the biggest snowflake ever in 1887. It was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, made up of lots of ice crystals and water droplets. CRACKED — Source

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Odds of Winning the Lottery

The odds of being hit by lightning and winning the lottery in one's lifetime are about 1 in 2.6 trillion CRAGh 2015 Atic 1oto July Amotique Lotery Pet

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Worms

Huge examples of normally small things An anaconda- sized earthworm The Australian Gippsland Earthworm is an absolute unit. It can grow up to an incredible 12 feet long and weigh up to 1-1/2 pounds. CRACKED — Source

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Brazil

Brazil received four million African slaves. GRACKED 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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Minimum Wage

The UK has raised the minimum wage, directly affecting about 2 million people. The minimum wage for everyone over 23 is rising by 6.6 percent, bringing the figure to 9.50 (or $13) per hour over twice the UK's current inflation rate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Molecules

Huge examples of normally small things The largest artificial molecule It's about as big as a tobaco mosaic virus. BOCHN Nellitter мивос BOCHN Society NHBoc NH Buchin RockN NHD Rocter - . Bookin - - МНОВ NH NH - BOLHER NH HN . Rocter NHBM NH NH NM ROCHN Nidoo NH - HN No BOCHN Nispos NH NH HN .. Mocha NABAK ROCHN AN BOCHN NHB NH HN ROCHN TO 600 Bocad NHBoo Scientists have created the biggest artificial molecule ever, called PG5. It took 170,000 chemical bonds to put it together. It's about 10 nanometres wide, and weighs the same — Source

25

CPR

The odds of returning to a meaningful GRACKED.COM quality of life three months after getting CPR treatment is about 3%. 36 11 27 13 SZ 6 34 17 2 21 4 6 That's only slightly better than picking the correct number on a single roulette spin. — Source

24

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

23

Wrecked Cars

The first seven Fast and Furious movies wrecked over a thousand cars - the number is 1,487. If you included the cars from the 8th and 9th movie, plus the ones from Hobbs & Shaw, the total number might cross the 2,000 figure. CRACKED.COM — Source: Top Speed

22

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

21

The Death Star

CRACKED.COM The Death Star is the size of a small moon, but its habitable space isn't limited to its surface. You'd have to cover THE ENTIRE EARTH (oceans and all) with a building 14 feet tall to get as much living room. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

20

Facebook

Facebook is at least partly to blame for a third of divorces in the UK. CRACKED.COM Facebook In 2018, 20 percent of all people in the UK who filed for divorce claimed that Facebook was at least partially responsible, and that number jumped to 33 percent in 2020. — Source

19

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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Literacy

LITERACY IS AT AN ALL- TIME HIGH. In America, the literacy rate is 99 percent. Worldwide numbers are up too. In India, for example, 60 percent of adults can read and write. Fifty years ago, that number was 18 percent. Worldwide as a whole, the literacy rate is 84 percent. 100% 2:28 PM AT&T Now It's MUCH better!! CRACKED.COM is https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html Thanks! With — 12 Pieces Of Good News The Media Just Skipped

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Shaq

Shaq's godawful freethrow percentage is merely divine intervention. 9 CRACKED.COM Me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.

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Newspapers

Newspapers are so big because they were taxed based on the number of their pages. Trouw Verstleping 11 I - - - - - - محمد Trouw Made - Metail - - 1 magness - (Motjregre Sing - NE SPOR - up groot - format which - - - Now - - / - - - - - - - I - - I - - - - - / ! - - - = - with - The British govern- ment began taxing newspapers in 1712 based on the page count, so the 33.1-inch by 23.4-inch page size became — Source

15

Microorganisms

37 Inconceivable Stats and Figures That Will Exponentially Multiply in Your Brain — Source: NIN

14

Coin Toss Odds

x MYTH A coin toss holds 50/50 odds. FACT A coin is more likely to land on the face that it started on- with odds of about 51-49. CRACKED — ICMA Photos/Flickr
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13

Bras

Shoppedfor a bra? Then you might have come across this stat- 80 PERCENT OF women WEAR THE WRONG SIZE BRA. The numbers are based on a 1998 study by a p

12

Atoms

100,000, 000 ATOMS IN A ROW WOULD BE ABOUT THE WIDTH OF YOUR FINGERNAIL An average atom is about 10-10 meters. For comparision, if the same number of standard pencils were laid end-to-end, they would wrap around the Earth's equator more than 47 times. CRACKED.COM — Source: CUNY

11

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

10

Cheating Odds

h any given year, the overall likelihood that your significant other will cheat on you is about 6% Your odds improve. the more religious you are, the older YOU are, and the more education you have. The odds are worse for women who are remarried: and for both genders a higher number of sexual partners is correlated with a higher chance of infidelity. CRACKED.COM — Source: 24 Shocking Statistics That Change How You View Sex

9

Men

Men and sex HE'S THINKING ABOUT STEAK GRACKED.COM Men think about sex every seven seconds. Nope. In polls, 30 percent don't think about sex most days ... and if they're lying, well, that just emphasizes how this stat is impossible to measure. — Source

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Nannies

CRACKED.COM An often repeated statistic: a child is seven times more likely to die in the care of a nanny than in a daycare center. Although it's technically true, the actual number is actually very small:1.6 per 100,000 (0.0016%) with nanny compared to 0.23 per 100,000 (0.00023%) at daycare, so there isn't really much difference between the two. If anything, the small difference between the two will be completely offset by the chance of dying in a car accident during the trip to the daycare center, which is a lot higher at 11.4 per 100,000. — Source

7

Prime Numbers

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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XronoMorph

TRACKS 5 P M FingerSering e F в E FingerString 1 g RideCrash S P S 8 P M Ridelle! P S M BassPink P g BassThumb S S P g HHatClosed tunpito... E S P M HiTomFon 9 S P M LoTomCong 10 S P e Glan 11 R BY M HiTomFon 12 R e M Kink 144 (a) UR uio avenneus note dur (ma) VIII che send Y backs POLYGON 13 в R C 1.50 0.996 A44 200 94 S 2 7 1 с ٥ 5 R R 1.67 0,986 G3 80 100 2 8 3 C 1.50 — Source

5

Sleep

Do you feel groggy after hitting snooze in the morning? 12 11 1 10 2 9 8 4 7 5 6 As long as you've had at least 7 hours of sleep, don't hit that butto

4

The Number Four

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM THE NUMBER 4 IS SEEN AS UNLUCKY IN CHINA. 170 16 15 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 3 2 1 CHINESE BUILDINGS SKIP ALL FLOOR NUMBERS THAT CONTAIN A 4, JUST LIKE WE DO WITH 13. IN TALL BUILDINGS, THE FLOOR COUNT JUMPS FROM 39 TO 50! — Source

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Kodak

Kodak used a 13-month calendar from 1928 to 1989. Feb , 234567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Mar . 2 3 4 3 6 7 & 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Apr 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 May 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 22 23 24 — Source

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People’s Favorite Numbers

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM A SURVEY ASKED 30,000 PEOPLE FOR THEIR FAVORITE NUMBER. o 9 9 C 3 4 8 8 1 2 2 9 8 3 4 7 4 ^ o 3 9 5 4 7 9 8 5 5 9 5 9 6 5 5 4 5 6 A 8 & 6 1 2 . 2 6 3 6 5 9 4 5 7 7 4 7 5 9 9 5 5 9 7 7 8 3 8 9 9 4 4 1 ٤ 4 O 8 ح ١ E 3 L 6 o ح 8 2 2 6 1 — Source

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Clocks

Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand-an hour hand. 9 7/ 8 5 N 3 9 10 8 7 6 IZ 5 4 2 3 à E F 12 ٩ 8 11 12 9 10 8 !! 7 KENSINGT 12 de 6 ك i في 4 شت 10 2 0.5 . 9 3 10 2 8 4 9 3 121 7 10 5 Until well into the eighteenth century tower clocks had only one hand, which showed the full hour or the quarter-hour. Life moved a lot slower back then. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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