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40 Unreal Stats and Figures That’ll Have You Sayin’ ‘Okay, Numbers, We See What You’re Workin’ With!’

February 21, 2025

Numbers are like those quiet, unassuming coworkers who end up surprising everyone by throwing down at the office Christmas party. You and the rest of your work pals just stand there in shock while Desmond from accounting gets a few too many in him and breakdances the night away.

It’s the same shock you’ll experience after these numbers get down with their bad selves.

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NASA and Pi

CRACKED.COM NASA only uses 15 digits of П =3.141592653 7932384626 For the highest accuracy calculations, NASA only needs to use 3.141 59265358979. Even when doing calculations for the circumference of a circle with a radius of 46 billion light years (the entire visible universe) to an accuracy equal to the diameter of the simplest atom, you would only need 39 or 40 decimal places — Source: 12 Out-Of-This-World NASA Facts

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Cancer

GRACKED.COM The left breast is 5% more likely to get cancer than the right. This is possibly because the left breast tends to be larger, and therefore has more tissue. — Source: 22 Diseases That Are Way Weirder Than You Realize

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100 Tons

FATAL x ERROR HAVING TO EXP AND A WHOLE PORT In 2003, a misplaced decimal point in the design of Spain's new submarine meant that it was 100 tons heavier than expected. The port of Cartagena, where it was being built, had to be expanded and dredged to fit it. This caused a five year delay. CRACKED — Source

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Fingernails

CRACKED.COM You really shouldn't chew your fingernails. Researchers have detected harmful bacteria on nail clippings from 24% of men and 15% of women. The worst bugs they found can cause diarrhea and vomiting. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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The Hair on Your Head

CRACKED YOU HAVE ABOUT 100,000 HAIRS ON YOUR HEAD. Blonde people average the most amount of hair, while redheads average the least. — Source

35

Cholera

Cholera can make you produce up to 5 gallons of diarrhea per day. 5 gallons would fill this bucket to the brim. CRACKED.COM — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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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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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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Keyboards

CRACKED.COM ? Ente Shift When did you last clean your keyboard? A regular computer keyboard can host over 3,000 germs per square inch, as opposed to about 50 on a toilet seat. Your desk can be 400 times as gross as your bathroom. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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House Sizes

OUR HOMES ALMOST TRIPLED IN SIZE In the 50S, the average family house was 983 sqo ft. By 2004, the new normal was 2,349 sq. ft. CRACKED COM

30

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

29

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.

28

Crickets

CRACKED CRICKET CHIRPS CAN MEASURE THE TEMPERATURE. For fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 to get the temperature. — Source

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Expensive Items

CRACKED $500 STRAWBERRIES The Bijin-Hime Strawberry is a Japanese strawberry variety that's as big as a baseball and tastes really sweet without any of the sourness you sometimes get with regular store-bought strawberries. One is worth almost five hundred bucks. — Strawberry Plants

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The Big Gulp

The 7-11 Double Big Gulp holds about twice the capacity of the average adult human's stomach. CRACKED.COM In 2012, 7-Eleven changed the size of the Double Gulp from 64 ounces to 50 ounces because they were too wide at the bottom and did not fit beverage holders in cars. — The Atlantic

25

Daycare

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. — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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Cellular Data

Paying extra for an unlimited mobile data plan? If you're like the average person, you're better off using data plans with up to 5GB limit. On average, mobile Internet users only use 4.6GB of data per month. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Things Where Expensive Doesn't Mean Better

23

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

22

Student Loans

The average person with student loans has a balance of $37,113. If you take private loans into account, that number goes up to $40,904. — Source: TIME

21

Numbers

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM IN SOME WAYS, THE NUMBERS WE USE TO COUNT WITH ARE UNUSUAL. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502 88419716939937510582097494459230781 64062862089986280348253421170679821 48086513282306647093844609550582231 72535940812848111745028410270193852 ALMOST ALL NUMBERS ARE ACTUALLY TRANSCENDENTAL, MEANING THERE'S A DECIMAL FOLLOWED BY AN INFINITE STRING OF SEEMINGLY RANDOM DIGITS, LIKE PI. — Source

20

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

19

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

18

IKEA

The average IKEA store is 300,000 square feet CRACKED.COM That is approximately the size of 5 football fields. — Source: How Stuff Works

17

Microorganisms

40 Unreal Stats and Figures That’ll Have You Sayin’ ‘Okay, Numbers, We See What You’re Workin’ With!’ — Source: NIN

16

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

15

Sex and Lies

A Health Survey for England study found the average male reported having 9.3 sexual partners in their lifetime. In a totally unrelated statistic, a 2002 University of Massachusetts study found the average person can't go 10 minutes without lying. CRACKED COM — 24 Shocking Statistics That Change How You View Sex

14

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

13

The Universe

WE'RE WAY CLOSER 000'000'000'000'000'000'000'000'000'000'OL0 TO THE BIG BANG THAN TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. The universe is 13.8 billion years old-and that's positively microscopic compared to the time it has yet to go. Today Big Bang CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Then/Now Demonstrations Of Time's Power

12

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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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

10

Insects

CRACKED.COM You have eaten insects (and will again). Do you know how companies get rid of all impurities when processing food? It's simple: They don't. Each year, the average American ingests one to two pounds of bits of insects, like this grasshopper here. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

9

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

8

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

7

Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is tiny. At 31.3 inches by 21 inches, it's smaller than the average TV set.

6

Binary

BENDER BLANCHES AT THE BINARY BEAST. The Honking Bender being terrified of the number 1010011010 is explained by that being 666 in binary. — Sources: The Infosphere, Binary Code

5

Equations

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM BEHOLD, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EQUATION IN THE WORLD! in 1 + e =0 NO, I'M NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU. — Source

4

E. Coli

CRACKED.COM Shopping carts are nasty as hell. 50% of carts test positive for Е. coli, a bacterium usually found in poop. No need to add it to your shopping list. — Source: Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

3

Calculator Prototypes

YOUNG INVENTORS 19-YEAR-OLD BLAISE PASCAL INVENTED THE FIRST FUNCTIONING CALCULATOR. In 1642, the French mathematician and philosopher started developing a machine that could add and subtract (and multiply and divide by repeating additions or subtractions). Pascal built around 70 prototypes until 1645, nine of which still survive. 3 2 5 3 dizar new Containir malla Containne do mille de mill one OWO CRACKED.COM — Rama/Wiki Commons
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2

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

1

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

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