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32 Eyebrow-Arching Statistics About the World

By:: Timon DJ Spajic; Cracked Writers

November 10, 2023

32 Eyebrow-Arching Statistics About the World

We live our lives day by day, characterized by the movement of our globe, which provides us with a gorgeous and spectacular view. However, have you ever considered the planet we call home, Earth? Have you ever been curious as to what it's really made of? Or how heavy it is? Perhaps you’ve even wondered why we have a leap year. Or maybe, like us, you've rarely given it a second thought — until now.

Statistics and numbers may appear to be tedious, but the fact is that they can be a lot of fun. Scroll down for some examples…

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It comer to life $1-1.5 million -amount of the highest valued movie poster. CARL LAEMMLE The poster for Boris Karloff's 1932 horror classic The Mummy went on auction in 2018, but TH wasn't sold. UNCAN GRACKED COM — Statista, YouTube

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THERE ARE ABOUT 1,300,000 ANTS PER PERSON There are an estimated ants in the world. 000'000'000'000'O00'OL CRACKED.COM — Gizmodo

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Go on that honeymoon, if you can Honeymoons decrease the chances of divorce by 41%. CRACKED.COM — The Atlantic

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Marquis De Lafayette became a major general at age 19 When he was 16, he was a second lieutenant. Не was considered a war hero in both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution. CRACKED.COM — Monticello

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CRACKED.COM According to tie-in novels, soldiers in Gears of War maintain their peak physical form with a daily intake of 6,900 CALORIES. Three times that of a normal adult human. KFC That's over 10 Bargain Buckets from KFC. KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Amount of time it would take for Wall-E to build SOLAR DANK one trash tower: 95 WALL E years CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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Think trial jurors are well-prepared? They aren't. One study actually tested jurors on the things they should know after hearing their instructions. Their score? About 40%. ? ? ? Jurors who understood that the defendant doesn't need to prove him- or herself innocent: 50%. Jurors who didn't know what constitutes proof of guilt: 86%. CRACKED.COM — Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice

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There's no reason to worry about falling CRACKED.COM birth rates. True, the U.S. fertility rate is only 1.73 children per woman, an all-time low. But researchers get that number by assuming women currently in their 20s, say, will have as many kids in their 40s, as women currently in their 40s are having. And young women today are postponing having kids until later in life, so they'll have more kids than that assumption predicts. — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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47% -amount of viewers who watch content on their PCs in Asia. Additionally, 37% watch content on their phones, and TVs only get 3% of overall watch time. CRACKED.COM — Comparitech

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A BLUE WHALE'S HEART IS ABOUT AS TALL AS A SHORT PERSON A blue whale's heart is about 4 feet wide by 5 feet long by 5 feet tall. It weighs about 400 pounds. CRACKED.COM — National Geographic

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Half of adults say dating has gotten harder Over the past 10 years, nearly half of U.S. adults say dating is harder. Women are more likely to say they have had negative experiences, with 65% having been harrassed on dates. CRACKED.COM — PEW

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The average cost of wedding in 2020 was $19,000. Due to COVID, it makes sense that it'd be lower than the 2019 average of $23,000. CRACKED.COM — The Knot

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Taking care of 101 Dalmatians? You'd better be ready to clean up 76 POUNDS OF POOP EVERY OR SINGLE DAY. Skip one day, and the next you'll have the weight of a grown- up human in dog poop. CRACKED.COM — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Frodo's journey was insanely long. Hobbiton to Mt. Doom: 1,779 miles Los Angeles to Chicago: 1,745 miles CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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EATING DISORDERS ARE A FEMALE PROBLEM. 25% of anorexia & bulimia sufferers, and 40% of binge eaters, are 04 20 0lbs 320 men. 300 DE S 10 145 SI 25 140 O 20 09 DE Many men 062 by 0٤ 08 SEL 130 280 SE don't get 125 US OF OZZ 120 help because SV 260 50 001 SEE 052 110 55 OIL they're CRACKED.COM 105 240 100 OZ embarrassed. 95 DEI 06 DEZ no 60 99 GL 70 — The Washington Post

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CRACKED.COM In 2009, Bill Gates' net worth was over $50 billion, more than the GDP of Costa Rica. Net worth is defined as the wealth accumulated by a person throughout their entire career while Gross Domestic Product is the wealth accumulated by a country in a single year. Doesn't seem so impressive anymore, does it? — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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34 million -amount of viewers who tuned in to watch Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness on Netflix in the first 10 days. GRACKED COM — Comparitech

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RUSSIA IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS PLUTO Pluto's surface area is 17,646,012 km2, compared to Russia's 17,098,246 km². CRACKED.COM — Australian Government and NASA

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Only 14% of people say it's acceptable to break up over text About half say it's acceptable to end a committed relationship via phone call, but almost everyone says it's preferable to end in person. CRACKED.COM — PEW

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James Blunt ate only meat for two months and got scurvy The You're Beautiful singer went on a meat-only diet during university to prove a (bad) point to his vegan classmates. CRACKED.COM — Independent

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CRACKED.COM The damage to Manhattan in 50 The Avengers BILLION. than been calculated Hurricane as has $160 That's more 9/11, Katrina, or the 2011 tsunami in Japan. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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That magic carpet was wildly fast. Giza to Athens on a flying carpet: 697 miles in 10 seconds Magic Carpet Speed: 250,920 miles per hour CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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People who are popular in school earn more money as adults. Scientists conducted a long-term survey where they interviewed high school students, then tracked them down 35 years later. They found that kids in the top fifth of the popularity rankings earned 10% more than those who were in the bottom fifth. CRACKED.COM — Science Daily

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CRACKED.COM In April 2016, over one million people pledged to boycott Target after Target restated their policy of allowing transgender people to use the bathroom/changing room of their choice. This boycott was cited as the reason that Target's stock price plunged. It's true that Target's stock price plummeted immediately after the boycott started but it also plummeted three years before the boycott. That's what stocks do. 72.50 85 70.00 80 75 67.50 70 65.00 65 62.50 . M A S August, 2013 Late April, 2016 — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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8.8 billion - the most viewed YouTube video to date. It is, of course, Pinkfong's Baby Shark. CRACKED.COM — Statista, YouTube

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AUSTRALIA IS WIDER THAN THE MOON The moon has more square area, but Australia is almost 4000 kilometres, compared to the Moon's 3,475 km. CRACKED.COM — Australian Government and NASA

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Public proposals are more likely to get rejected 85% of people say they would prefer a private proposal. CRACKED.COM — The Cut

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Andrew Carnegie was worth around $372 billion Carnegie was arguably the richest American to have ever lived, running closely ahead of John D. Rockefeller. CRACKED.COM — BBC

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CRACKED.COM In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the cloud that surrounds V'ger is stated to be 82 AU across. That is more than the distance FROM THE SUN TO PLUTO AND BACK. It was scaled back to only 2 AU (twice the Earth's distance to the Sun) in the special edition DVD. — Stats That Will Change How You View Fictional Worlds

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Phil Connors was trapped for half a lifetime. Learning all the skills he picked up along the way (master pianist, ice sculptor, etc.) would take 12,403 days, or just under 34 years. CRACKED.COM — 16 Eyebrow-Arching Fictional Universe Stats

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If you think of Muslims as living عبد يا ابت لا in the Middle إلّي East, you're نَتِ mistaken. 61.9 قان و كوك ين percent don't. ه لاه And not all Arabs are Muslim. ية ليز As much as 10 percent of the عفر لك world's Arab population is 2. Christian, which means there ونَ مِن دُولِ are 1 million more Arab Christians than the world's P entire Jewish population:/ --كلاح سفِيا وهبناله GRACKED.COM — Pew Research

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Shopped for a bra? Then you might have come across this stat- 80 PERCENT OF women WeAR THE WRONG size BRA. The numbers are based on a 1998 study by a plastic surgeon named Edward Pechter and have since become the golden mantra for bra brands all over the world. But what they don't tell you is that - the study was done on only 100 women the cup sizes taken ranged from AA to DDD (Cup sizes can range upto O) In short, the study was neither large nor diverse enough to conclusively state the fact. In fact, due to — 23 Stats That Are Misleading B.S. (But Technically Correct)

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