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Numbers don’t lie

32 Eyebrow-Arching Statistics That Sound Made Up

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Yes, we know numbers and statistics can be pretty boring. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be used in a fun way — like using them to point out interesting facts about pop culture and the world. For instance, did you know that the average American spends around 10 hours a day staring at a screen? Or that the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50 is an unintentional injury?

Here are a bunch of other stats that will blow your mind instead of bore you…

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Kowloon Walled City had a population of 3.25 million people per square mile The former military fort was the most densely populated place to ever exist. Compare that to Manhattan's 27,000 people per square mile. CRACKED.COM — Popular Science

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CRACKED.COM Superior Form BISMARCK Huron مو 29 PIERRE One day, Forrest chichigan Gump just felt MADISON HEYE like running. LINCOLN DES MONES COLUMBI And he ran a NVER 15,248 OKLAHOMA grand of JEF ROCK SPRI 65 INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA RT total MILES. 59 CITY Pheidippides' run from Marathon to Athens 20 75 Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race 85 59 KSON MONTGOME Forrest Gump 10 The world's longest footrace is just 3,100 miles. 10 — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Rambo's Kills

John Rambo's Body Count: Rambo (2008) 247 Rambo III (1988) 127 First Blood Part II (1985) 67 First Blood (1982) 1 (accidental) CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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Cow Burps

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 COM — AP News

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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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3.1 billion - active gamers in the world It's estimated that almost 40% of the world's population play games regularly. Only 8% of those are dedicated console players, but they also seem to play more. About 1.5 billion people prefer PC over console, and mobile gamers account for almost half of all video game consumers in the world. CRACKED.COM — Vice

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Representing the Disabled

4.7% - Netflix movies and series featuring a main character with a disability. 27.2% of U.S. citizens live with a disability. CRACKED.COM — USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative

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Atoms

100,000,000 ATOMS IN A ROW WOULD BE ABOUT THE WIDTH OF YOUR FINGERNAIL An average atom is about 10-10 meters. For comparision, if the same number of standard pencils were laid end-to-end, they would wrap around the Earth's equator more than 47 times. CRACKED.COM — CUNY

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Social Interactions

Low social interaction is as dangerous to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day Social connections (including friends and family) improve our odds of survival by 50%. CRACKED.COM — ScienceDaily

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In the US, there are almost 12,000 injuries per year due to falling TVs. To compare, there were only 57 unprovoked shark attack bites worldwide in 2020. Be more afraid of your beloved TV showing JAWS than a shark attack. CRACKED.COM — U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Florida Museum

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CRACKED.COM In Warhammer 40,000, the Emperor has 11,000 sat That's upon Golden as long Throne as YEARS. for nearly the about humans have lived in cities. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Estimated value of Scrooge McDuck's Money Pit: $ DEPTH GAUGE 90ft Depending on your starting point: $52 billion (based on depth), $239 billion (based on ladder length), $12 trillion (based on blueprints), or $333 trillion (based on 3 cubic acres) CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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12,200 Americans are erroneously declared dead every Year. | I I I I This is by the U.S. Government, so the victims of the error have to cope without minor things like driver licences, social security checks, bank accounts, etc. CRACKED.COM — ABC News

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Fox News used the fact that food stamp fraud cost the government $70 million to argue that it may be time to stop the program. NEWS insider LATEST TRENDING PEOPLE SHOWS TRUMP TRANSITION Food Stamp Fraud at All-Time High: Is It Time to End the Program? f share this email With a budget of around $67 billion, the money lost to fraud actually made up less than 1% 99.9% of the of total food budget. stamp In other words, about N-T HIDITI reached the people who money nT successfully were meant to have it. CRACKED.COM — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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50% -number of U.S. adults who believe that demons definitely or probably exist. Talking WILLIAM FULD OUIJA MYSTIFYING RED c ORACLE ES 46% DEFGH also believe in ghosts. CRACKED.COM — YouGov America Inc.

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Squid

GIANT SQUIDS' EYES ARE BIGGER THAN BASKETBALLS Scientists believe they may have giant eyes to help them detect their giant predator, the sperm whale, while in the darkness of underwater. CRACKED.COM — NPR

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Open relationships are just as satisfying as monogamous ones Research shows that people in consensual, non-monogamous relationships have equal levels of relationship satisfaction, psychological well-being and sexual satisfaction as people in monogamous relationships. CRACKED.COM — ScienceDaily

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The world's most expensive parking spot costs $1.3 million A luxury building in Hong Kong sold a spot for more than $10,000 per square foot. CRACKED.COM — NPR

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Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer

CRACKED.COM Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer, the Executor, is about 12 LES long. It would crush most of Manhattan if it were to use the island as a landing strip. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Number of Jobs held by Homer Simpson: 188 in the first 400 episodes CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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Men are much more aggressive than women. Unless gender is hidden. Then women are more aggressive. Scientists found that when playing a bomb-dropping game, women dropped more bombs than men did, but only when their gender wasn't identifiable. GRACKED.COM — ABC News

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By taking a study out of context, an article in The Washington Post came to the questionable conclusion that women should get married to avoid domestic violence. FIGURE 7 Intimate partner violence against females, by household Although the rate of composition, 1993-2010 Rate per 1,000 females domestic violence is BC Maried adults without children indeed highest among Manried adults with children One female adult with children V. One female adult only single mothers, the Other household composition 4 article fails to account for other x factors, such as : 91 95 56 '97 989 92 100 DI IT 01 & - — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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49% -the share of consumers in the United States who have a favorable opinion of Darth Vader. CRACKED.COM — Statista

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BLUE WHALES EJACULATE ENOUGH SPERM TO OVERFILL A WATERCOOLER One researcher estimated a whale produces 5.4 gallons of sperm with each ejaculation. The largest blue whale testicle ever found was over 30 gallons. CRACKED.COM — BuzzFeed News

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The more you spend on a wedding, the more likely you are to get divorced Those who spend over $20,000 on their wedding are 46% more likely to get divorced than those who spend $5,000 to $10,000. CRACKED.COM — The Atlantic

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In 2020, Americans watched over 57 billion minutes of The Office MICHAEL SCOTT PAPER COMPANY INC. Netflix streams for the Dunder Mifflin crew were far ahead of the second most streamed show, Grey's Anatomy, at 39.5 billion minutes. CRACKED.COM — ScreenRant

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CRACKED.COM Jack Bauer kills a total of 309 PEOPLE of 24. over the whole run Put in a different way, that is one kill every 40 minutes. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Think men think about sex every 7 seconds? Yeah, that's crap. In fact, experts estimate that 30% of men don't think about sex during the day at all. CRACKED.COM — ABC News

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The sentence doing/eating/ drinking___will increase the chance of cancer/heart attack/dying by__% often doesn't tell the whole story because it doesn't But show the initial risk. For example, on average colon cancer occurs in 4.5% of American males and eating bacon Anaa increases the chance by 18%. It doesn't mean that men who eat bacon on a regular basis have a 22.5% chance of getting cancer, it just means that the chance goes from 4.5% to 5.3% or an increase of 0.8 percentage point. CRACKED COM — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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elempreDeres 100 GOSSIPGIRL BLINDERS M NEW EPISOD NETFLIX D GODLESS RD Bene SIRVING THINGS Deek Halls STAR - THE CLONE WARS 80% IX RICH HTNCP PIG WARS 017 - amount of Netflix users who click and IN watch the recommendations given ACK MIRROR by the platform's DE CRACKED.COM algorithm. — Comparitech

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YOU COULD FIT ALL THE PLANETS BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE MOON When the moon is farthest from Earth, the distance between Earth and the Moon is so large that all the other planets in the solar system could fit in between them comfortably. CRACKED.COM — Slate

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1 in 10 coupled people met their partner online 32% people met their significant other through family or friends. However, 28% of LGB adults in relationships met their partner online. CRACKED.COM — PEW

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