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36 Stats and Facts Not Even Human Computers Can Quite Believe

As we gathered these, our computer was all like, ’Wait… What?!’

36 Stats and Facts Not Even Human Computers Can Quite Believe

December 04, 2023

If only computers had hands. Not for that reason! Ew, gross! Grow up! We meant for the funny visual of watching it making that eye-clearing motion with that squeaky windshield wiper sound effect! Cus that’s the reaction we’d expect our computer would make as it helped gather up these ridiculously outlandish numbers!

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CRACKED SUPER WT ROAD BISHOPSGATE MAYP BOUR 1. KINGS ROAD COLLECT €600k 2. KE £2M AS YOU PASS E4M 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 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 GENETIC INFLUENCE ON GENDER OF OFFSPRING According to a Newcastle University study of hundreds of years of family trees, men who had more brothers were more likely to have sons, and those with more sisters were more likely to have daughters. This pattern wasn't seen in women. — Source

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CRACKED FURNITURE VS TERRORISM A 2015 study showed that the chances of getting hurt or killed by a terrorist in the US are really small. In fact, you're more likely to get crushed to death by falling TVs or furniture than by a terrorist. — Source

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The Risk of Dying on Your Birthday

CRACKED RISK OF DYING ON ONE'S BIRTHDAY People are 14-18% more likely to die on their birthday than any other day of the year. That's according to a major Swedish study, and one of the authors says We can only speculate on the reasons for the extra deaths on birthdays. — Source

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CRACKED FLIPPING A PENNY When you flip a penny, it's more likely to land on tails than heads. That's because the penny's center of mass is slightly more on the heads side, making tails come up about 80% of the time. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The most overpaid actor in 2017 was Mark Wahlberg, whose films only grossed $4.40 for every buck he was paid. The best value actor for the same year was Jeremy Renner, with box office returns of $93.80 for each dollar he made. — Source

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There are more than 2,600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame GODZILLA 17 are dedicated to fictional characters GRAGKED COM — Source

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Johnny Knoxville's embarassing Special Olympics comedy The Ringer Had the biggest box office opening weekend sales drop ever Opening Sales: $2,376,983 Next day Sales: $658,080 that's a 72% drop. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Oscars

Of the 84 Oscar Best Picture winners from 1929 to 2013, just nine were set in Asia. 9 4 Four were set in Africa, and none in Australia or South America. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The amount of speaking roles in Disney Princess movies are still dominated by male characters. Total Disney Princess movies: 12 (1937-2013) Movies in which women speak as much as or more than men: 5 CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Best Actress Oscar winners' acceptance speeches focus on family a lot more than Best Actor Oscar winners' speeches. Between 1988 and 2013, they mentioned family three times more often, and parent or parents 2.5 times more often. — Source

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DisnepPIXAR The final count of the balloons used in Pixar's movie UP was 10,297. CRACKED COM — Source

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Contract Killings

5 percent CRACKED.COM From 1993 to 2002, 5% of murders in Scotland were contract killings. — Source

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3.6 million CRACKED.COM 3.6 million married Americans live in a separate residence than their spouse. Living together apart couples have doubled since 1991. — Source

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$800 million GRACKED.COM Forbes estimated Girl Scouts make about $800 million from cookie sales. — Source

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1,673.5 tons CRACKED.COM 1,673.5 tons of mustard gas is stockpiled by the U.S. government, to be destroyed by 2024. — Source

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51 years old CRACKED COM O.Z. Whitehead was 51 when he played a teenager in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. — Source

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Spartacus

76,000 people CRACKED.COM The sound crew from Spartacus went to a Michigan State Spartans game, directing over 76,000 people to scream and cheer to use in the movie's soundtrack. — Source

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1/2 of all panda births are twins However, it's very rare for both to survive to adulthood. The mother will pick the strongest cub to care for, abadoning the weaker one. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Falling TV Injuries

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 — Source

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Luxury Parking

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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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Ancient Egypt

Cleopatra was born approximately 2,500 years after the pyramids were built - but just 2,000 years before the first moon landing. Source: CRACKED.COM http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/how-long-ago-was-it/ — Source

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Planck Time

A second can be an eternity Planck Time is the shortest unit of time possible. It is the time it takes light in a vacuum to cross one Planck Length (the shortest distance possible). There are more units of Planck Time in one second then there have been seconds since The Big Bang. Seconds since Big Bang: 10 CRACKED.COM Planck Times in a second: 10 44 — Source

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CRACKED COM THE SHORTEST WAR BOSTON ON RECORD, THE SEOUL ANGLO-ZANZIBAR St Km. CONEY ISLAND WAR, LASTED MILES SAN FRANCISCO 5426 MILET ABOUT 40 MINUTES. TOKYO 259 mi 414Km OR, JUST LONG BURBANK 5610 ENOUGH TO WATCH MILES TWO EPISODES OF Death Valley 6776 M*A*S*H WITHOUT TOLEDO Biss 9412 COMMERCIALS. DECATUR M. — Source

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M*A*S*H WAS ON THE AIR FOR 3816 DAYS, MORE THAN THREE TIMES THE LENGTH OF THE KOREAN WAR (1128 DAYS). RE-DE WARPH 10210217 CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 1860, it took 4 months via the Oregon trail to get from Missouri to Oregon. Jump ahead 100 years... It took 4 DAYS for Apollo 11 to get to the Moon. The MOON! http://www.octa-trails.org/learn/trail_facts. php#lengthoftrip — Source

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36 Stats and Facts Not Even Human Computers Can Quite Believe — Source

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MOST 50-POINT BE NBA GAMES WILT CHAMBERLAIN ORIGINAL CRACKED.COM This mark is even more unreachable than his (bonus unbreakable record) 100-point game. Wilt Chamberlain's 118 50-point games is nearly 4 times as many as second place Michael Jordan's 31. From 1958 to 1973, Wilt the Stilt dominated the NBA, and in 1961-62 alone he had 45 50-point games (more than any other player's entire career). — Source

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CONSECUTIVE MLB GAMES BE CAL RIPKEN JR. ouieles CRACKED.COM With no active player within 2000 games of Ripken, this streak is untouchable. Whether it's for player safety or protecting the asset, teams today do not risk injury, so playing 2632 consecutive games (over 16 years) is just not possible. Cal Ripken Jr. may never see a player reach even half of his streak. — Source

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MOST OLYMPIC MEDALS MICHAEL PHELPS CRACKED COM With his unbreakable tally of 23 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals, Phelps is the most decorated Olympian ever. Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina sits 10 behind Phelps with 18 medals in the 50s and 60s. With almost 6 golds in 4 straight Olympics, Phelps has more Olympic golds than 66 countries' entire history. — Source

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MOST CHAMPIONSHIPS BILL RUSSELL & HENRI RICHARD CRACKED.COM Brady needs 5 more Superbowls. Yes, the NBA had 8-11 teams at the time, and the NHL had 6-12, but 11 championships in any era shows utter dominance. Bill Russell won 11 NBA titles with the Celtics in a 13 year career (1956-69), and Henri Richard won 11 Stanley Cups for Montreal from 1955-75. Current NHLers have 3 and Lebron has 4. — Source

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MOST STOLEN BASES RICKEY HENDERSON أبو CRACKED.COM In the Majors, Henderson stole an incredible 1406 bases from 1979 to 2003. With Lou Brock in 2nd at 938, and considering a new player would have to steal more than 70 bases for 20 consecutive seasons to match it, Rickey's record is... Safe! (Sorry). — Source

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MOST NHL POINTS WAYNE GRETZKY BAN Clo CRACKED.COM Gretzky holds (bonus unbreakable record) 61 NHL records, but his 2,857 all-time points sit almost 1,000 above #2's Jaromir Jagr. Jagr's 1,921 all-time points means that if Gretzky never scored a single one of his all-time record 894 goals, his 1,963 assists alone would still make him the all-time leader in overall points. — Source

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