40 Stats and Facts That’ll Make You Question Whether You’re Living in a Simulation

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40 Stats and Facts That’ll Make You Question Whether You’re Living in a Simulation

When a highly suspicious person says that something isn’t quite adding up, they’re clearly not talking about numbers. Adding up is exactly what numbers do. And today, they’re adding up to all kinds of wild stats that’ll have your top eyelid touching the ceiling and your bottom eyelid hitting the floor — right beside your jaw. 

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People think the Three Mile Island meltdown was a huge nuclear disaster. But the radiation released was equivalent to about one-sixth of a chest X-ray. CRACKED.COM

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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

Attack of the Killer Hippos

Hippos kill 3, 000 OPLE every year. Sharks kill fewer than six. Where are all the Hipponado movies? CRACKEDCON COM

Scrooge McDuck’s Money Pit

Estimated value of Scrooge McDucK's Money Pit: SS DEPTH GAUGE 90ft Depending on your starting point: $52 billion (based on depth), $239 billion (based

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CRACKEDCON The budget for the Curiosity rover is about the same amount the U.S. military spends in a little over 30 HOURS.

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Only five states had no lynchings from 1883 to 1968. Those states were Alaska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. (The Chicago Tribune started tracking stats in 1882, and the Tuskegee Institute stopped in 1968.)

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NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM 0.9999... EQUALS 1 0.999999999999 999999 9999999999999 999999 9999999999999 999999 999999999999 999999 9999999999999 999999 999999999999 99999 999999999 99 ONE THIRD = 0.33333... TWO THIRDS = 0.66666... THREE THIRDS = 0.99999...

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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.

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Chef Hats

The number of pleats used to represent the number of recipes mastered. In the 1800s, if you had 100 pleats, it meant you mastered 100 dishes. Now, it'

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Since 1967, over 500 people have been killed by caterpillars. The Lonomia Obliqua caterpillar causes an average of 1.7 deaths per year, making it almo

Dice

Want to roll a certain number? Start the roll with the desired number on top! Dice are slightly more likely to land showing the same number that was o

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Extra Strength PG Got a headache after F reading all these CAPLET facts? ACETAMINOPHEN CONTAINS NO ASP Well... you might want to tough it out, because

Epic Losing Streaks

Biggest Losing Streak D1 FOOTBALL I DUAMED CRACKED.COM The Prairie View A&M Panthers didn't taste victory for nearly a decade. They lost 80 straight games from 1989 to 1998.

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2,000 couples, six hours, two world records. In June 2021, a huge wedding in Baran, India saw over 2,000 couples tie the knot in less than six hours, setting two new world records for the most couples getting married in 12 and 24 hours. CRACKED

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CONSECUTIVE BE SHUTOUTS MAZAROPI CRACKED.COM Nothing gets by him. Mazaropi is a Brazilian goalkeeper who holds the world record for the longest professional shutout streak. Edwin van der Sar had 11 consecutive shutouts in the '08/'09 Premier League, but Mazaropi's streak of over 20 games (1,816 minutes) in the '77/'78 Rio de Janeiro State Championship is nearly impossible to break.

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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

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Unbelievable Statistics

CRACKED SPIDER'S SILK IS 5 TIMES STRONGER THAN STEEL. It's also 1000 times thinner than human hair.

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Unbelievable Statistics

YOU WALK ENOUGH STEPS TO TAKE YOU AROUND THE WORLD THREE TIMES. The average adult will walk around 75,000 miles in their lifetime, which is like taking a trip around the world three times. CRACKED

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ISN'T IT WONDERFUL THAT THE SUN'S DIAMETER IS 400 TIMES LARGER THAN THE MOON'S, AND IS 400 TIMES FARTHER FROM EARTH? THAT WAY, WHEN VIEWED FROM EARTH.

Unbelievable Statistics

BUSYBODY HEART BE life CRACKED.COM Our heart beats around 100,000 times a day, 365,000,000 times a year, and over a 70-year lifetime, the average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times.

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Unbelievable Statistics

CRACKED YOUR HEART WILL BEAT BILLIONS OF TIMES. Throughout our lives, our hearts beat an average of about 2.5 billion times. In a day, that's 100,000 times, and in a year, it's 35 million times.

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Unbelievable Statistics

CRACKEDCON COM Che NC ork PIIR: Times An anonymous donor gave $1 million to The New York Times' sponsor a subscription program. Along with other don

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An object in motion can be divided into instances of rest. THE FLETCHER'S PARADOX GRAGKED.COM If motion is nothing but snapshots of non-motion, then motion is an illusion.

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On average, most people have fewer friends than their friends have. FRIENDSHIP PARADOX CRACKED.COM This is due to a sampling bias: people with many friends are more likely to be your friend.

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When potatoes consisting of 99% water dry to 98% water, they lose 50% of their weight. THE POTATO PARADOX CRACKED COM The result seems counter-intuitive, but when you consider 2% is twice as much as 1%, it makes sense.

Everyone’s Favorite Number

NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM A SURVEY ASKED 30,000 PEOPLE FOR THEIR FAVORITE NUMBER. o 9 3 9 C 4 8 8 1 2 2 7 4 ^ o 3 9 9 8 3 4 5 4 7 9 8 5 5 6 5 9 6 5 5 4 4 5 ما A 8 c 6 2 1 2 6 3 6 5 9 4 5 7 1 4 7 5 9 9 5 5 9 1 7 8 3 8 9 9 4 4 7 ٤ 1 O 8 ح I 3 L 6 o 8 3 ح 2 2 6 1

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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

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NUMBER FACTS CRACKED.COM IN CHINESE THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF WRITING DOWN EACH DIGIT. HIGH 23 1 THERE'S THE SIMPLE VERSION IN COMMON USE, AND A MORE COMPLEX VERSION USED ON CONTRACTS AND BANKNOTES. THE COMPLEX VERSION IS USED TO AVOID CHEATERS ALTERING NUMBERS AFTER THE FACT.

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