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43 Absurd Statistics About History, Movies and Everything Else

October 15, 2023

Certain things are brain-breaking to accept. We’re not talking about Snopes-style fact-checking or wild stories of The Avengers’ Hawkeye playing 18 holes of golf and shooting 18. No, we’re talking about how the world is crazy, and while we didn’t need a whole bunch of numbers and statistics to prove it, here they are anyway…

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In the 1970s, the highest-grossing films for eight out of ten years got an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. But preferences are diverging MARK MICHAEL RACHEL LIEU JON STANLE VC FFALO KEATON McADAMS SCHREIBER SLATTERY TUCC SPOTLIGHT BREAK THE STORY. BREAK THE SILENCE CRACKED.COM In the most recent decade (2008-17) only three of them did. — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM 1946 was the all-time high for American moviegoing. In that year, more than 80 million Americans went to the movies every week. LIBERTY FILMS Frank CAPRÁ'S iT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE pleasing James STEWART CHi LIONEL BARRYMORE THOMAS MITCHELL un MOM Donna and REED SELLAR ISSUED MARS 6000- FOR FOOD - - voir - A will for - POLICE THE YEARLING Walt Disney's FAST unt-action MUSICAL PARMA SONG OF THE After television PASSION Mapic Sex RE MINI TECHNICOLOR SOUTH GREGORY PECK JANE WYMAN EM AND .. Moon - Friends ANY came out, that INCLE HENJUS IN TECHNICKOR NATURAL a - — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CHINESE AUDIENCES FREAKING LOVE THE FAST & FURIOUS MOVIES. In China, Furious 7&8 are the two top-grossing Hollywood movies of all time. 1. Fate of the Furious, $392 million (U.S.) 2. Furious 7, $390 million 3. Avengers: Infinity War, $359 million 4. Transformers: Age of Extinction, $320 million Meanwhile, they don't give a sh!t about Star Wars. The Last Jedi, $42 million CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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Johnny Knoxville's embarassing Special Olympics comedy The Ringer Had the biggest box office opening weekend sales drop ever Opening Sales: $2,376,983 Next day Sales: $658,080 that's a 72% drop. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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UNIVERSITY as In 1986 Steve Jobs bought Pixar for $5 million. O P X A R ANIMATION STUDIOS In 2006 Disney bought it for $7.6 billion. Things came full circle in 2012 when Disney- LE for bought $4 billion. Lucasfilm CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM Best Actress Oscar winners' acceptance speeches focus on family a lot more than Best Actor Oscar winners' speeches. Between 1988 and 2013, they mentioned family three times more often, and parent or parents 2.5 times more often. — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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43 Absurd Statistics About History, Movies and Everything Else — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM Both Black Panther ($700 million) and Avengers: MARVE Infinity War ($679 million), grossed STO more at the domestic box office by themselves than every comedy released in the first nine months of 2018 combined ($658 million across 60 releases). — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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Porn hub is a juggernaut of net-traffic. In 2014 alone, they uploaded over 1.5 million terabytes of data. That's 3,000 gigabytes of high-definition debauchery processed each minute. This massive boom is fueled by 18.3 billion visitors, almost 6,000 every second. These visitors viewed a total of 78.9 billion videos, or 11.2 videos for every human on planet Earth. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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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 4 3 7 45 1 10 8 8 4 8 4 J 7 45 ( 1 10 6 7 9 6 7 6 7 7 9 2 6 5 5 2 10 5 1 1 9 l 9 1 6 3 8 3 7 10 2 7 8 10 5 4 10 2 7 8 10 5 7 3 8 5 3 5 1 3 — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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Americans use and dispose of 100,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags each year. If the average bag is around 12 inches in length, laying them end to end would stretch around the equator... Twice. Per day. Walmurt CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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On average, a healthy male is estimated to ejaculate 7,200 times in his lifetime. At an average of 2.75 ml per load, that's 20 litres of nut butter. And with a whopping 280, 000, 000 cells in each blast, a typical male will release roughly 2,016, 000, 000,000 sperm cells into the world. That's 65 times as many humans that have ever existed. GRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM Between the Axis and Red Army casualities, and the POW and civilian deaths, the Battle of Stalingrad is responsible for the deaths of about 2,026,000 people. In terms of American cities, that would be the equivalent of the combined population ofPhiladelphia and Atlanta. And then over 9,000 more people. — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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Y-chromosome Adam is the term geneticists use to refer to the most recently living male from whom all modern humans descend. Y-chromosome Adam is projected to have lived about 208,000 years ago. Using an average of 25 years per generation, Y-chromosome Adam would be your 8317th- great-grandfather. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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A blue whale can eat up to 40 million tiny krill in a single day, which total in weight to about 7,900 lbs. That's more than the weight of most Hummers. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies were shot in the exact same number of days: 266. IKOH THE DIRECTOR ORGENE LORD OF THE EINGE LOGY Then why are they so different? According to The Hobbit's behind-the- scenes documentary: There was incredible planning (on Lord of the Rings), there were three and a half years of pre-production before we rolled the cameras. Peter never got a chance to prep (The Hobbit Trilogy)....with little, possibly no preparation, we jumped straight into doing pre-viz. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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The amount of speaking roles in Disney Princess movies are still dominated by male characters. Total Disney Princess movies: 12 (1937-2013) Movies in which women speak as much as or more than men: 5 CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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Of the 84 Oscar Best Picture winners from 1929 to 2013, just nine were set in Asia. 9 4 Four were set in Africa, and none in Australia or South America. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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1 adidas SHATI LET 390 277 0260 100 DOLLARS ... TH د Of the 10 highest-grossing films of all time: 4 of them are superhero movies. OFF E NATURAL 100 K - UKINO 3 CHUL HL 16 DO O EGS A HAIR MAON MAN 31 a N D OFA 5240 D KOREA A.L. ... ... GRAGKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM The Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations... To solve all of them, even doing one per second, would take over 100 times the age of the universe. — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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McDonald's serves 75 burgers per second, every of the year. second of the day, every day The weight of the COWS needed in one year to make their beef is virtually the same weight of the entire human population of Maryland. GRACKED COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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OSCILLOCOCCINUM is a best-selling homeopathic flu treatment made from duck liver. NDC 0220-9280-33 SYMPTOMS OF FLU Reduces Duration and Fever, Chills, Body Aches and Pains Severity of Flu Symptoms oscillococcinum No Side Effects No Drug Interactions ، DOSES Non-Drowsy 0.04 oz. each HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE BOIRON® Quick Discriting Pellett Under the paradoxical principles of homeopathy, those duck parts are diluted 400 times to reach optimal potency. At this ridiculously low concentration, you would need to take 10 380 pills to ensure you've digested a single molecule of the active ingredient. That's more pills than there are atoms ...in the UNIVERSE. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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Walmart

Walmart employs 1.4 million people in the U.S alone, 1% of the entire working population. ASSOCIATES Walmart 2013 Save money. Live better. By way of comparison, their workforce is as large as the active frontline forces... for ALL of the military branches. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM Mathematicians have found 12.1 trillion digits of pi as of present. When written in a straight line on a to the Sun and back. piece of paper, that paper PIROM stretch $2643383 3 — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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Graham's Number G = 3M 3 311 T3 64 layers 3 M 3 3 3 г Conceived by mathematician Ronald Graham in a published article in 1977, Graham's Number until recently held the Guinness World Record for the largest number used in a serious mathematical proof. It is so mind-bogglingly large that if it were written out in standard format-with each digit occupying a space no larger than a Planck length (the smallest unit used in scientific measurement)-the universe itself would not have enough space. And that's just the numerical notation, not the value itself. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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GRAGKED COM DE An average French kiss transfers 80 million bacteria The population of France is almost 67 million — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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A gas cloud known as G34.3 located about 10,000 light years away contains a massive amount of ethyl alcohol, the kind of alcohol we can drink. Besides the fact that it is 1000 times the size of our solar system, its alcohol content is enough to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. That's about 50 quadrillion (15 zeroes) pints of beer for every person on Earth. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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GRACKED COM The US prints 38 million banknotes a day, which seems like a lot until you compare them to LEGO bricks, which are manufactured at a rate of 125 million per day (more than 1400 every second). Yes, they are a good candidate for currency in a dystopian future. — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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CRACKED COM There are over 300,000 species of beetles currently identified. get by with a little help from my friends... This represents nearly 30% of ALL KNOWN ANIMAL SPECIES. — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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Human fertilization occurs when one of a male's sperm fuses with a female's ovum. This unique union is what makes you, you. The average male ejaculate contains around 250,000,000 sperm cells. So, assuming you were conceived typically, on the same night, under the same sexy circumstances, there was a 99.999999999994% chance that the person you see in the mirror could have been someone altogether different. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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THIS IS A GOOGOL 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 IT IS A ONE FOLLOWED BY ONE HUNDRED ZEROS IT'S VERY, VERY, VERY BIG HOW BIG IS IT? IT'S SO BIG THAT, IF YOU HAD A GOOGOL SPECKS OF POLLEN MEASURING 1/100TH OF A MILLIMETER IN DIAMETER, THEY WOULD FILL UP THE ENTIRE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE... CRACKED.COM 100,000 TIMES (AND ALSO MURDER OUR ALLERGIES) — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM At its peak, with over 80 million players, Farmville was the most popular game on Facebook. FARMWiLLE zynga FAR FIRMVirTE nga FARM ViLLE zynga If each of these players actually ran a modest 100 acre farm, they would require more than FOUR TIMES all the land in the lower 48 states. — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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205 Billion Emails are sent and received every day. CRACKED.COM If each email were printed out on one sheet of office paper, the stacked paper would circle about half way around the Earth's Equator. The paper would consume nearly 25 million trees. Sending these by US Mail would cost about the same as has been spent on the International Space Station. - EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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Why is it so hard to get a computer to always win at chess?, you say. Just store every possible game in it, and it can't lose! Mathematician Claude Shannon Не calculated the amount had a similar idea in 1950 of possible games to be 120 10 That's a 1 followed by 120 zeroes This is called the Shannon number So, if you somehow could store a game in a single atom, and if you could use EVERY ATOM IN THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE (that's 1080 atoms, by the way) you'd still be SEVERAL DUODECILLION UNIVERSES short to build a computer — Source: 23 Insane (But True) Statistics

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98% of music composers for 2017's 250 top-grossing movies were men. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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Between Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel and more, Disney basically treats the box office like a cash machine that gives billion-dollar withdrawals, to the tune of $8 billion in 2017. But the money Disney makes from its studio division is just a fraction of its total annual revenue. Disneys parks and resorts alone make more than double what its films bring in. Disney 2017 Revenue Consumer Products and Interactive Media 9% Studio Entertainment 15% Media Networks 43% Parks and Resorts 33% GRAGKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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The Wolf of Wall Street

CRACKED.COM THE WOLF OF WALL STREET There were 687 curse words in this movie. 332 of them were spoken by Leonardo DiCaprio. F*CKING 358 C*CK 5 TW*T 2 F*CK 169 C*CKS*CKER/ING 5 B*TCHING 1 SH*T 69 F*CKSVILLE 4 F*CKFACE 1 M*THERF*CKER 18 PR*CK 4 F*CKHEADS 1 F*CKED 16 P*SSY 4 F*CKERS 1 D*CK 8 C*NT 3 F*CKITY 1 B*LLSH*T 7 SH*TTY 2 SH*TKICKER 1 — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM Of all the women to win the Oscar for Best Actress from 1928 to 2015: Only 1.1% of them weren't white! — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CRACKED COM HOLLYWOOD Films released (2012-2013): 738 Hollywood gets all the press, but Bollywood is so much bigger. BOLLYWOOD Films released (2012-2013): 1724 — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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The Walk of Fame

There are more than 2,600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame GODZILLA 17 are dedicated to fictional characters GRAGKED COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM BY ... THE BEST FILM or THE YEAR WISTORI TAM PROCENCE 14 SHAPE AT WATER NEREDALY POWERFICT IN CINEMAS NOW - FLM ***** - YOUR the SPOTLIGHT 2 12 - BIRDMAN MO GHT - Movies don't need to pass the Bechdel Test to win Oscars. Passing The Bechdel Test only requires a movie to have two named women and have them speak to each other about something other than a man. Two of the last five Best Picture winners have failed the test. — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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CRACKED.COM The most overpaid actor in 2017 was Mark Wahlberg, whose films only grossed $4.40 for every buck he was paid. The best value actor for the same year was Jeremy Renner, with box office returns of $93.80 for each dollar he made. — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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From 1988 to 2014, Samuel L. Jackson has said the word motherf*cker 171 times in 27 movies. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Hollywood (Revealing) Statistics

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