27 Unbelievable Stats to Make Your Brain Turn Inside Out
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Growing up, none of these numbers were thrown around math classes, and it’s a cryin’ shame! It’s probably why none of us retained any of that sine, cosine and tangent nonsense. If only our textbooks told us that there were 10,297 balloons in the movie Up. Now that’s something we’d remember!
![The Powerball drawing on March 30, 2005, produced 110 2nd-prize winners. CRACKED.COM All 110 winners had played numbers found inside for- tune cookies. The total pay- out was $19.4 million, 89 of them receiving $100,000 each, while the other 21 re- ceived $500,000 each.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/9/1009149.jpg)
![Speed reader and megasavant Kim Peek read books two pages at a time. GRACKED.COM Не could scan the left page of a book with his left eye, then the right page with his right eye. Не was able to accurately recall the contents of over 12,000 books, and was the inspira- tion for Rain Man.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/8/1009148.jpg)
![The most dangerous road on Earth is the Road of Death that connects the Amazon Rainforest to La Paz, Bolivia. CRACKED.COM There is not a single guardrail, and in many places the road isn't any wider than 10 feet. Be- tween 200 and 300 people fall to their deaths every year.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/7/1009147.jpg)
![Of over 8,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, only one has ever been destroyed by a meteorite. CRACKED.COM Satellites are programmed to avoid meteorites so they don't get destroyed. The European Space Agency's communications satellite, Olympus, is the only one to have been hit, in 1993.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/6/1009146.jpg)
![Manute Bol could only bench 45 pounds when he was first drafted into the NBA. 10 GRAGKED.COM Bol's ethnic group, the Din- ka, and the Nilotic people of which they are a part, are among the tallest pop- ulations in the world. His great-grandfather was even taller than him, at 7'10.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/4/1009144.jpg)
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/5/1009145.jpg)
![There are more than 2,600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame GODZILLA 17 are dedicated to fictional characters GRAGKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/3/1009143.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/2/1009142.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/9/1009139.jpg)
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/1/1009141.jpg)
![DisnepPIXAR The final count of the balloons used in Pixar's movie UP was 10,297. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/0/1009140.jpg)
![People who marry at 18 have a 60% divorce rate Compare that to people who marry at 23, whose divorce rate is only around 30%. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/8/1009138.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/7/1009137.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/4/1009134.jpg)
![NYC has 200,000 more single women than men If you're a single heterosexual woman, your odds are better out West. San Diego 50,000 more single men than women, Seattle has 46,000 more. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/5/1009135.jpg)
![FALLING IN LOVE TRIGGERS THE SAME EUPHORIA IN THE BRAIN AS COCAINE. It can occur in a fifth of a second. I guess all those songs comparing love to drugs are correct. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/6/1009136.jpg)
![Public proposals are more likely to get rejected 85% of people say they would prefer a private proposal. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/3/1009133.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/7/1009127.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM GRIM REAPER? TRY GRIM MOWER. H Riding lawnmowers cause an average of 90 deaths a year.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/2/1009132.jpg)
![WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU GOT 7-9 HOURS OF SLEEP? If your answer is I can't remember, you should rethink your life because accidents caused by drowsiness cause 1,550 fatalities and 40,000 nonfatal injuries annually in the US alone. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/1/1009131.jpg)
![CRACKED COM Either by falling out of them, or having them fall on you, trees kill over 100 people yearly in the United States.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/0/1009130.jpg)
![From 2003 to 2013, there were 12 deaths and 113,272 injuries associated with inflatable amusements! Kids, try not to have too much fun when you're bouncing on the moon! CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/6/1009126.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Stairs are linked to 12,000 deaths annually (ordinary stairs, not just crazy stairs)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/8/1009128.jpg)
![8 Statistics state that around 27 people die every year due to working around elevators. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/9/1009129.jpg)
![CRACKED COM That rug might really tie the room together, but it could kill you. An estimated 3,800 people aged 65 and over die each year from slips and falls caused by area rugs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/5/1009125.jpg)
![TELEVISION IS BAD FOR YOU. According to figures from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 215 people were crushed to death by falling TV sets in the United States between 2000 and 2011. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/4/1009124.jpg)
![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 almost as deadly as a rattlesnake. Just a touch of its spines will inject a person with venom that causes severe internal bleeding. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/3/1009123.jpg)