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40 Stats and Figures to Put on Your Trophy Shelf Next to Your Mathlete Participation Trophies

March 19, 2025

These outrageous stats are so perplexing that if you’re truly able to comprehend even one of them, you’ll most likely get a pat on the back from Mommy and Daddy as if you brought home an A+ on a math exam.

Which is what we’re all out for, isn’t it?

So get to reading. That much-needed validation could be in here somewhere!

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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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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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Meteorites

ONE MAN HAD A COSMIC TARGET ON HIS HOUSE. CRACKED.COM Bosnian man Radivoke Lajic had his house pelted with meteorites. The odds of one strike is 1 out of 20 trillion. Lajic's home was hit 6 times. We are not smart enough to calculate the odds of 6 meteorite strikes, but suffice it to say, it's unusual. — More: 20 Completely Impossible Coincidences (That Really Happened)

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Australia

AUSTRALIA IS WIDER THAN THE MOON The moon has more square area, but Australia is almost 4000 kilometres, compared to the Moon's 3,475 km. CRACKED.COM — Australian Government and NASA

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

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The Seven Dwarves

The Dwarfs are filthy rich. Height of Grumpy: 2-foot-six Diamond size (est.): 7 inches Largest gem-quality diamond ever found, measuring 4 inches: $2

34

Glee

The cast of Glee has had 207 SONGS on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That's three times as many as the Beatles. CRACKEDCOMT

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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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Psychopaths

CRACKED.COM People with psychopathic tendencies tend to take their coffee black, rather than with cream, or sugar in it.

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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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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
Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss

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Welfare Recipients

This graph from The Weekly Standard implies a significant increase in the number of people receiving welfare. Over 100 Million People In U.S. Now Receiving Some Form Of Federal Welfare - Figures Conne Meuny-Yested Reflime Non Social Security Or Medicure (06,000,000 [@4.000,000 100 000 are 100,000,000 Number of Americans 98,000,500 96,000,000 04,000,300 2809 DI 2009 Q2 2009 QT ZUK Q4 2019 Q1 2010 Q2 zum Q3 2010 Q4 IDE: DI 2011 02 Figures . abive Source: LA Людия Produced by Seith Budget Construct Republican Bestley Member toff Although the number is legit, the chart isn't because the y-axis begins at 94 million. This is — Source: 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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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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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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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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Snakebites

You might worry that a snakebite is a death sentence. Out of the 7,000 to NAH, YOU'LL BE FINE. 8,000 people who are bitten by venomous snakes in the U.S. each year, only five die. That makes your odds of death by snek around one in 50 million. GRACKED.COM — Source

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CPR

The odds of returning to a meaningful GRAGKED.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

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Suicide Rates

If someone really wants to commit suicide, there's no stopping them, right? Actually, of the 515 people prevented from committing suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge between 1937 and 1971, only six percent went on to kill themselves. A researcher in the '70s tracked them all down. GRACKED.COM — Source

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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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Spinach

A misplaced decimal point made spinach a superfood. In 1870, a German chemist calculated the 8 9 amount of iron found 4 5 in spinach and other 6 vegetables. When he you EXI yon BY LY YONA Exp 2 3 recorded his findings, د he misplaced the YOU XOW XOn decimal point. The amount of iron in spinach is 3.5 mg per 100g, but he wrote down 35 mg. Despite repeated efforts by the scientific community to set the record straight, the myth that spinach is ridiculously high in iron persists to this day. http://it toolbox .om/blogs/infosphere/spinach-how-a-data- CRACKED.COM quality-mistake-created-a-myth-and-a-cartoon-character-10166 — Source

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Slavery in 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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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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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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Man vs. Beast

6% of Americans think they could take a grizzly bear in a fight. CRACKED.COM Eight percent of Ameri- cans believe they could beat a gorilla, an ele- phant and a lion in a fight, and 9 percent think that a crocodile is hardly a worthy foe. — Relevant Magazine

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20/20 Vision

65% of adults need some kind of eyesight correction. x CRACKED.COM Only about 35 percent of adults have 20/20 vision without glasses, contact lenses or corrective surgery. With corrective measures, approximately 75 percent of adults have 20/20 vision. — University of Iowa

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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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Couples

Couples that share housework have sex more often. The gender-neutral division of labor in the home can increase sexual frequency and satisfaction. Additionally, couples that don't divide chores based on traditional men's and women's tasks sometimes have even better sex lives than those who do. CRACKED.COM — 25 Bizarre Statistics About Relationships And Sex

13

The Sun and Moon

THE SUN AND MOON APPEAR THE SAME SIZE WHEN VIEWED FROM EARTH BECAUSE OF AN ODD SYMMETRY. CRACKED.COM The sun's diameter is 400 times larger than the moon's, and it is 400 times further from Earth. This allows the moon to perfectly eclipse the sun when it passes, but this splendor isn't permanent - the moon is slowly moving out of Earth's orbit, at about 1.5 inches a year. — More: 20 Completely Impossible Coincidences (That Really Happened)

12

College Textbooks

College textbooks got over ten times more expensive from 1977 to 2015. The exact percentage is 1,041% - three times the rate of inflation. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NBC

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Men and Sex

Statistics That Change How You See the World - “Men think about sex every seven seconds.” Nope. In polls, 30 percent don’t think about sex most days . — Source

10

Hentai

According to Porn hub statistics, percentage-wise, Russia is the country which likes Hentai the most. Hentai is the most searched term in the countr — Source

9

College

NON This graph by The Business Insiderimplies that people shouldn't go to college because it's a bad investment. The diminishing financial return of h

8

Bra Size

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

7

Student Loans

The number of old student loan owners is greater than ever before. The number of people with student loans who are 60 years old or more went from 700,

6

Beethoven

Beethoven was SO bad at math, he couldn't track his spending and income. He left school early, and never learned how to multiply and divide. CRACKED.C

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The Moon

Scientists funded by the Italian Space Agency calculated whether humans can run on water if the water is on the moon. The result: Only if they weigh 7

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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, b

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The Hubble Space Telescope

CRACKEDco THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE ACTHALLY LOOKS BACK IN TIME. WHEN IT TAKES A PICTHRE OF A GALAXY 100 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAy, WE ARE SEEING THE

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Violent Crime

CRACKED.COM Almost 69 percent of those who reported having committed violent crimes also reported eating candy daily at the age 10.

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Playing Piano

Learning tO play a piano makes you better at math. After 8 months of piano lessons, students went from scoring in the 30th to the 65th percentile on t

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