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28 Unbelievable Stats That Will Have You Doing a Quintuple Take

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Your belief in them doesn’t make them any less true, but yes, these stats are pretty unbelievable. If you really want “unbelievable,” check out one of our many “myths and misconceptions” lists after these very shocking, but we assure you, very believable stats right here.

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Raising 101 Dalmatians would cost a fortune. Cost of owning a single dog: $153 per month. x 12 months = $1836 X 101 = $185,436 per year CRACKED.COM — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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Jack Bauer has shot 309 people over 9 days, 2 hrs. That's person every 40th one minutes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Red Shirt, Short Life Number of crew deaths in Star Trek: The Original Series: 59 Number of Red Shirt Deaths: 43 79% of dead crew-members wore red shirts. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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 — Source

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Number of Jobs held by Homer Simpson: 188 in the first 400 episodes CRACKED.COM — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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Amount of time it would take for Wall-E to build VOLAR DATE UM one trash tower: 95 WALLE years CRACKED.COM — Source

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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 human. Three times that of a normal adult KFC That's over 10 Bargain Buckets from KFC. KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC KFC — Source

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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 — Source

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

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

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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 — Source

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About HALF of airline pilots admit to falling asleep during flight. ONE THIRD report waking up to find the other pilot asleep as well. CRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM You're more likely to die FALLING OUT OF BED than in a plane crash. Both likelihoods are very slim: 1 in 2 million for the bed against 1 in 5 million for the plane. — Source

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The cast of Glee has had 207 SONGS on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That's three times as many as the Beatles. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM MITH some 1 LECKE AM 5 OLLAR I S Adam Sandler movies have grossed OVER $5 BILLION worldwide. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Americans waste over 141 TRILLION calories' worth of food every year. That's 1,249 calories for each person every day, according to the Department of Agriculture. — Source

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CRACKED COM In 2013, Walmart turned a profit of $17.2 BILLION. That same year, Walmart employees got $2.66 BILLION in government assistance due to low wages. — Source

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Since 1989, 365 convicted prisoners have been exonerated by DNA evidence. 28% had confessed. 20 were on death row. CRACKED COM — Source

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Hippos kill 3,000 PEOPLE every year. Sharks kill fewer than six. Where are all the Hipponado movies? CRACKED. GOM — Source

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

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CRACKED.COM Over 80 of sexually active adults will catch an STD at some point. Most will never know, as many STDs show no symptoms. — Source

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