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40 Staggering Statistics We Tried Wrapping Our Heads Arounds (And Tore Our Ears Off in the Process)

March 06, 2025

Ugh! We thought we were ready for this list, but we got humbled right out of the gate. All the training and stretching in the world couldn’t make our brains flexible enough to wrap around these incomprehensible stats.

If you find a way to grasp them, maybe you could start a stat gym and be the coach that our brains desperately need.

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Steam Games

37 percent of all registered Steam games have never been played. This equates to 288 million of the 781 million games registered on the platform (as of 2014). Meanwhile, Dota 2 players have accu- mulated 3,828,000,000 hours, which equals 456,000 years. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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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 — Washington Post

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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
The Conversation

37

Weighing Yourself

If the number on the scale makes you unhappy, you're definitely a part of the majority. kg 6 It's been discovered that 75% of adults are not satisfied

36

Dust

This speck of dust Is half way between the size... Of this... And this CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Seconds

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

34

Infinity

Not all infinities are the same size. Georg Cantor demonstrated that there are more real numbers than natural numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of each. CRACKED.COM — Source

33

Plagues

A plague killed half the world's population. CRACKED.COM There's some debate, but upper estimates of the sixth-century Justinianic Plague's death toll make it much worse than the Black Death, which killed only a quarter of people worldwide. — Source

32

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

31

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

30

Pilots

About HALF of airline pilots admit to falling asleep during flight. ONE THIRD report waking up to find the other pilot asleep as well. CRACKED COM — Source

29

The 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. — Source

28

Cocaine Usage

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

27

Toys

Kids in the US have a disproportionately high amount of the world's toys. Although the country has 3.1% of all children in the world, it consumes way more .. a total of two-fifth of all toys available in the world. CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Monopoly

CRACKED SUPER WT ROAD BISHOPSGATE MAYP BOUR 1. KINGS ROAD COLLECT €600k 2. KE £2M AS YOU PASS E4M 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

25

Flipping Pennies

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

24

Dragonflies

CRACKED DRAGONFLIES HAVE STAYED THE SAME FOR 300 MILLION YEARS. Before that, they were giant due to the increased amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. — Costea Andrea M/Shutterstock
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23

Rat Pack

RATS MULTIPLY so QUICKLY THAT AFTER 18 MONTHS, TWO RATS COULD HAVE 1-MILLION DESCENDANTS. CRACKED In 3 years they can produce half a billion descendents. — Daily Mail / DnD Wiki

22

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. — Almanac / Wikipedia

21

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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20

Volcano

Anne Heche Movies Volcano Ten digital effects companies and 300 people developed the FX. A quarter-mile long, 80% full-size replica of Wilshire Boulevard, one of the largest sets ever constructed in movie history, was assembled in Torrance, California. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia, That's Entertainment/YouTube

19

The Elephant Graph

The famous elephant graph is deployed by professional optimists to demonstrate that global prosperity is lifting up the very poor as well as the very rich. income growth rate (percent) 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 percentiles of the global income distribution But since the graph charts growth as a percentage of current income, it equates the poor gaining a few dollars with the rich gaining millions. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

18

Halloween

Americans spend about $440 million a year dressing their pets up for Halloween. In 2017, an estimated 16 percent of Americans planned to dress their pets in Halloween costumes, and that number is only growing. The most popular costume is a pumpkin. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — CNBC

17

A Googolplex

A Googolplex is such a large number that it has more zeros than all the hydrogen particles in the known universe. CRACKED COM If you were to write the number out on books with 400 pages, 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line, the mass of the books would be greater than the total mass of all the stars in the observable universe. — Wall Street Journal

16

The Tenth Doctor

CRACKED.COM Doctor Who David Tennant (2005 - 2010) The Tenth Doctor His wife Georgia Tennant played the Doctor's daughter, but кода TO POLICE 2015 BOX she's also the daughter of Fifth Doctor Peter Davidson- making Tennant married to the Doctor's Daughter, both in real life and in the series. — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

15

Cheating

If it takes you a fraction of a second less than average to look away from an attractive person, you're half as likely to cheat. A 3.5-year study of 233 participants examined the relationship between their likelihood of cheating and ability to shift their attention away from attractive potential partners. And participants who looked away from a photo of somebody attractive a few hundred milliseconds sooner than average were almost 50% less likely to cheat. CRACKED.COM — 25 Bizarre Statistics About Relationships And Sex

14

Roman Numerals

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM™ ROMAN NUMERALS REPRESENT THE NUMBERS 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 AND 1000. IVXLCD M 1 5 10 50 100 500 1000 ROMANS USED AN S TO SHOW ONE HALF, AND DOTS TO INDICATE TWELFTHS. MDCLXVIS. = 1666 AND 7/12 — Source

13

The Actual Size of the Flu Virus

This is a red blood cell and This is a flu virus They're both really, really, tiny. But not everything tiny was created equal... If the flu virus was exactly 1 meter long... ...then a red blood cell would be almost as long as a 747. Lufthansa GRACKED.COM — 26 Brain-Breaking Real Size Comparisons

12

The Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is tiny. At 31.3 inches by 21 inches, it's smaller than the average TV set. CRACKED.COM — 28 Eyebrow-Arching Size Comparisons

11

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

10

The Sheer Scale

The life-size dragon in Shang- chi has a total of 8,000 scales, all placed by hand. It was really hard on the person who hand-modeled and placed them all but he did the initial sculpt, and wanted to make sure every scale was right. CRACKED.COM — Source: ComicBook.com

9

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.

8

Speed 2

SPEED 2 CRACKED CON They spent six months building a full-size Caribbean town with 35 buildings, into which a full-scale, one-third ship was guided by — Source: The Spokesman-Review

7

The Bechdel Test

While 2018 had a surprisingly large number of movies with female leads, BUMBLEBEE top of the a quarter films almost highest-grossing. Test. 100 the Be

6

Lies

Do you find yourself telling a lot of fibs? Join the club. A study found that 60 percent of people average two to three lies during a typical 10-minut

5

Lactose Intolerance

CAN'T DIGEST MILK? YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH MOST OF THE WORLD LACTASE HOTSPOTS Only one-third of people produce the lactase enzyme during adu

4

Work

Nick feels like he has no idea what his boss expects of him. And neither do half of his peers. Data shows that 50 percent of feel like they employees

3

Premature Ejaculation

PEAKED TOO SOON? It's not just you. Experts say around a third of men have admitted to experiencing premature ejaculation, the inability to control se

2

Billions of Strands

To make the all-important tapestry in Brave (2012), the animators didn't just add a woven layer to a painting. Nope, they made a model of a single str

1

Stairs

CRACKED.COM HOME INVASION. THE PROSPECT IS SCARY. I MUST GET A GUN TO PROTECT MY FAMILY FROM INTRUDERS! YOU'D BE BETTER OFF SHOOTING YOUR STAIRCASE. About 400 people die every year in the U.S. during burglaries-compared to 2,500 who are killed by stairs.

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