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July 20, 2023

We all enjoy a good science-fiction film or an interstellar superhero epic that transports us to remote planets and the cosmos. But the truth is, there’s a lot of mind-blowing stuff going on right now on Earth. For example, did you realize that our oceans contain about $700 trillion in gold? Or the world’s highest peak isn’t even Mount Everest? Bet you didn’t. Shoot, we should have bet you all of the gold in the ocean. Maybe next time…

When broken down into raw data and statistics, the actual world can seem more like science fiction and may be just as mind-boggling. Here are 32 examples, if you’d just scroll down…

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Smaug IMF Germany U.S.A. TONS 2,500 7,500 Smaug's fortune in 2,690 That's The Hobbit has less been estimated TONS at slightly than the 2,814 tons in the of gold. International Monetary Fund's reserve, and about one-third of the U.S. reserve. CRACKED.COM — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Thermostats

90% OF OFFICE THERMOSTATS DON'T DO ANYTHING AT ALL. This is according to an HVAC De Set -3:49 Fan Auto specialist who Hold installs 78 dummy Run Cen thermostats at on How the request of landlords who are tired of complaints about the temperature. GRACKED.COM — 8 Gadgets That Lie to You Every Day

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this.Sitems.eg(pos) aNte function (this.paused . true) CRACKED.COM if (this.Selement.find(* .next. 384 this.Selument.trigger(s.suppert 385 gert.transition) this.cycle(true) 386 387 388 this.interval clearInterval 389 390 return this 391 1 392 393 Carousel.prototype.net function .sliding) return In Star Trek: The this.slide(next) Next Generation, Data's processing capability is stated to be 60 TERAFLOPS de'] (or 60 trillion operations per second). This was much faster than any computer when the show was on the air. Today's supercomputers, however, can process multiple petaflops (quadrillions of operations per second). — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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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 — University of Florida

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CRACKED.COM Icorus Insive her . Gemenon surface, which made mighration يس mining CO the mutional - the By the time of the the Cylon attack, 23.5 BILLION PEOPLE lived in the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. When the series ended, about 38,000 were left. The death toll of Battlestar Galactica is four times the current population of Earth. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Suicide

Think suicide rates skyrocket at Christmastime? The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics reports that the suicide rate is, in fact, the lowest in December. The suicide rate actually peaks in spring, not winter. GRACKED.COM — The CDC

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The titan Cronos, from the God of War series, stands 1,600 FEET TALL. By way of comparison, the Empire State Building is 1,450 feet high. CRACKED.COM — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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CRACKED.COM Minecraft's total surface area is over 9 MILLION EARTHS. Or if you prefer big, unwieldy numbers, 4,722,366,482,869,645 square kilometers. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Rats

Think rats are just a minor, gross annoyance? THEY DESTROY OR CONTAMINATE UP TO 40% OF OUR FOOD. In poor and rural areas, rats eat 20% of the crops, then eat another 20% of grain in storage. Worldwide, rats are thought to eat or otherwise ruin up to 10% of everything humans produce. CRACKED.COM — Newsweek

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The Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist organization, claimed that 83% of violent crimes between white and black Americans are committed by blacks against whites. The figure came from comparing the numbers of white victims by black assailants (430,000) to black victims by white assailants (90,162). This overlooks that the majority of all victims of crime are white, because they make up 70% of the U.S. population. The truth is that blacks committed 15.4% of violent crimes against whites (the number is 15.9% for whites against blacks), while 67% of the assailants were white. CRACKED.COM — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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CRACKED.COM PEACH In Dredd, Mega-City One has a population of 800 million (compared to 300 million in today's U.S.A.), and 17,000 crimes reported daily (as opposed to 28,000 in the U.S.A.) That means that the crime rate in America is FOUR TIMES HIGHER than in the dystopian Mega-City One. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Number of people who know Batman's secret identity: 31 with an additional 9 who might know. CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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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 — Business Insider

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

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125% -increase in chess set sales following the month after the release of The Queen's Gambit. While the pandemic saw a 25% increase in sales in the United States, the show's debut made chess sets the hot new item. Goliath Games saw an increase of 1000%. GRACKED COM — The New York Times

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The main cast of Seinfeld dated a grand total of 212 GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS over the course of the series. 27 73 50 62 CRACKED.COM — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Powering your Iron Man Suit ESTIMATED ENERGY FOR 90-SECOND FLIGHT: 2 Gigawatts POWER GENERATED BY THE LARGEST U.S. NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: 3.3 Gigawatts CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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95% OF SUSHI IS MISLABELED. Conservation group Oceana recently found that roughly a third of the time, seafood sold at U.S. markets and restaurants had been swapped for species that are cheaper, overfished, or risky. The worst offender was sushi restaurants. Out of 118 visited, 95% sold fish that varied from their menu. Hamachi was incorrectly labeled in every case. CRACKED.COM — CNN

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CRACKED.COM National polls show Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is extremely unpopular. They actually only show she's extremely unpopular with Republicans. In March, a poll found that 74% of Republicans viewed AOC negatively, while only 7% of Democrats had a negative opinion of her. Her overall favorability is low because 44% of Democrats that were polled didn't know enough about her to have an opinion, while only 23% of Republicans said the same. — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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1.03 billion -times the episodes of the final season of Game of Thrones were pirated while it was airing on HBO. 16.1 million viewers watched the first episode of the last season either live or later on HBO, while illegal downloads or streams amounted to a staggering 187.4 million. CRACKED.COM — The Washington Post

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It can cost $250 million to make one NASA spacesuit Spacesuits aren't custom-fitted... NASA mixes arms and leg sections to adjust to different astronauts. CRACKED.COM — NPR

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A World of Warcraft player can run the whole length of Azeroth in one hour and ten minutes. At marathon speeds, this suggests that Azeroth is about 14 MILES LONG. Roughly the size of Manhattan. CRACKED.COM — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Raising 101 Dalmatians would cost a fortune. Cost of owning a single dog: $153 per month. x 12 months = $1836 X 101 = $185,436 per year CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper each Year. That's 1/5 of all the TP in the world, even though the U.S. makes up only 4% of the global population. CRACKED.COM — 12 Ridiculous (And Telling) Statistics From Around The World

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We trust the scale at our doctor's office to be reliable. But 20% of those are inaccurate. That's pretty disconcerting when you consider that dosages are based on patient weight. CRACKED.COM — 8 Gadgets That Lie to You Every Day

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Police interrogation techniques are tough, but they get the job done. Right? Maybe a little too well. Innocent people will confess to a crime they didn't commit 43% of the time. CRACKED.COM — Law & Human Behavior

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95 billion packets of ramen noodles are sold every Year. Yeah, those ramen noodles. HOM HGH This is according to the World Instant Noodle Association, and, when you do the math, adds up to 15 packs of noodles for every human being on Earth. CRACKED.COM — 12 Ridiculous (And Telling) Statistics From Around The World

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There's a 123456789 misconception that stairs are safe and elevators are death traps. Yes, taking the stairs is healthier, but it's not safer. Number of deaths per year in U.S. elevator accidents: 27 Number of deaths per year, for stairs: 1600 CRACKED.COM — Live Science

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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

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In the movies, a gunshot wound means you're dead, period. BUT... As long as your heart is still beating when you arrive at the hospital, you have a 95% chance of surviving a gunshot wound. CRACKED.COM — The New York Times

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