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31 Stats and Figures That Will Short-Circuit Your Neural Pathways

July 23, 2024

Look, just because a number isn’t like 11 digits long, doesn’t mean it’s not interesting. Even the number 1 can be a real shocker from time to time. For instance, did you know that 1 out of every 2,000 to 3,000 babies are born with a tooth? See? That’s just as cool as the fact that Americans use roughly 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper per year.

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Waiting in Line

The average person spends FIVE YEARS OF THEIR LIFE waiting in line. CRACKED.COM — Source

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

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A full 70% OF GUNS seized by police in Mexico can be traced back to the United States. CRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In late 2008 and early 2009, 1in5 BOOKS SOLD was written by Stephenie Meyer. — Source

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CRACKED.COM You're more likely to die FALLING OUT OF BED than in a plane crash. Both likelihoods are very slim: 1 in 2 million for the bed against 1 in 5 million for the plane. — Source

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Cows

When we talk about climate change, people love to make jokes about farting cows. But cow farts aren't a thing. 0092 Cows do emit methane, but 95% of it comes from burping. They belch because they're ruminants, and burping is part of their digestive process. CRACKED GOM — Source

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Heart attacks increase by 24% on the Monday after Daylight Savings Time kicks in. Researchers speculate that the spike has to do with a disruption in circadian rhythms and cortisol levels. And, unsurprisingly, stress. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BLACK WIDOWS ARE RUTHLESS AND DEADLY. SO, SO DEADLY. 1% OF THE TIME. Most of the time, a black widow won't even inject any venom into its bite. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EATING DISORDERS ARE A FEMALE PROBLEM. 25% of anorexia & bulimia sufferers, and 40% of binge eaters, are OZ LA men. Olbs 320 300 DE S 10 09 145 SI O 20 25 DI Many men ODI 082 by 08 SEL 30 130 280 SE don't get 125 06 OF OZZ 120 help because SV 260 50 001 115 052 110 OIL they're SS CRACKED.COM 105 240 100 OZ embarrassed. 95 DEI 06 DEZ no 60 65 70 L — Source

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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 — Source

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CRACKED GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING It's really unlikely that you'll get hit by lightning in any given year - almost a one-in-a-million chance. Most people who do get struck by lightning make it out alive, with around 90% of them surviving. — Source

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

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CRACKED CHANCE OF BEING BORN It's incredibly unlikely that you were born - the odds that all 150,000 generations of your lineage would remain unbroken are about one in 400 trillion. So ... go and make the most of it. — Source

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CRACKED DOPPELGANGERS The chances of having an exact twin are pretty slim - only one in 135. But if you look at the bigger picture - attributes like the overall shape of your face-it's more likely that you have a doppelganger out there. — Source

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CRACKED SHUFFLING A DECK OF CARDS It's almost impossible to shuffle a deck of cards into the exact same order twice - it's like trying to arrange the same number of atoms as there are in our entire galaxy. So it's almost certain that every single shuffled deck of cards, ever, is unique. — Source

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BLIND PEOPLE SUFFER FOUR TIMES THE NIGHTMARES THAT SIGHTED PEOPLE DO. NIGHTMARES ACCOUNT FOR 25% OF DREAMS FOR PEOPLE BORN BLIND VS. 6% FOR THOSE WITH FULL SIGHT. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A survey of American businesses found 35% of entrepreneurs are Dyslexic — Source

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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 the Stanford 9 Math Test. CRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM MORE SERIAL KILLERS ARE BORN IN JANUARY THAN ANY OTHER MONTH A study of 293 serial killer spread across 29 countries all over the world revealed that 11.2% of those were born in January, even though the month of January has 7.9% of all births. Fun fact: Hannibal Lecter was born on January 20, 1933. — Source

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You have a 1 in 11.5 million chance of getting attacked by a shark... ...Which is still more likely than winning the Powerball (1 in 175 ERS million). LOTTER P o W E NEW JERSEY LOTTERY R E BALL P o ٤ POWERPLAY P POWERPLAY:NO CASH VALUE POWERPLAY CASH VAL 30.00 visit njlotte 5141 PARE$$ - AMOUS are bood MOOOD ..... NNNNN NWNNA NOODON NAAAA .. U-NNO RETAILER NNC-1 DOOD PPB roas There numerous people Wed Feb0 who N-NWW 312000 still 31298200 refuse swim in the NUMBER IT ocean, but love to play : WIN! $2 POWERBALL WITH BETTE JACKPOTS — Source

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GRACKED.COM If you are an American man, you are more likely to die from breast cancer than testicular cancer. — Source

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1 out of every 2,000-3,000 babies is born with a tooth. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Flipping a coin repeatedly rarely comes out evenly. I 2 GRACKED.COM In 100 flips, there's less than an 8% chance that you'll have 50 heads and 50 tails. — Source

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The odds of returning to a meaningful GRACKED.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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CRACKED.COM RAMEN YO! THE AMOUNT OF INSTANT NOODLES CONSUMED IN CHINA EACH YEAR IS ENOUGH TO MAKE THREE ONE-WAY TRIPS TO PLUTO. — Source

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CHEESE CONSUMED 100 USA YEARLY WEIGHS ABOUT 14 EMPIRE STATE BUILDINGS CRACKED.COM — Source

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The bottled water Americans consume in just one year... Is enough to fill 15,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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The Viagra sold in an average week can be stacked as high as the Empire State Building. Times THREE. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM The weight of ice-cream eaten by Americans daily is more than the weight of Eiffel Tower — Source

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pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon was on Billboard's Top 200 charts for a staggering 736 weeks. This is longer than the American Civil War, World war I and World war II combined. CRACKED.COM — Source

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