32 Trivia Tidbits About Unbelievable Statistics
Who knew you could get so excited about stats?
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Before you read these astonishing stats, we want you to know that we called your old math teachers and they’re pretty upset. They’re jealous that you chose to be here reading about numbers when they couldn’t get you to pay attention for five minutes in class. We assured them that it’s because these numbers are actually interesting. That absolutely did not help, and they abruptly hung up on us. Seems as though those teachers could use an etiquette class.
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![IF FLEAS WERE AS TALL AS PEOPLE, THEY COULD JUMP OVER 15 CARS And that's bumper to bumper. Fleas can jump 38 times their body length. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/1090435.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/1090434.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM STAY Being 112.5 feet tall and 37.5 feet wide, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters contains roughly 925,000 GALLONS of marshmallow. The goo from its explosion could be used to make 186 million s'mores.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/1090433.jpg)
![Think your cat is plotting to kill you? In the U.S. between 2004 - 2015 there were 10 cases involving dogs shooting their owners... ...Versus only 1 case involving a cat. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/1090432.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM You are more likely to die on your HIP day than on any other day of the year](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/1/1090431.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM If you are an American man, you are more likely to die from breast cancer than testicular cancer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/1090430.jpg)
![1 out of every 2,000-3,000 babies is born with a tooth. GRAGKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/9/1090429.jpg)
![GRAGKED.COM Santa's Elves look a bit different than you imagined. 85% of artificial Christmas Trees and 80% of Toys are made in China.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/1090428.jpg)
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![CRACKED COM The weight of ice-cream eaten by Americans daily is more than the weight of Eiffel Tower](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/6/1090426.jpg)
![pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon was on Billboard's Top 200 charts for a staggering 736 weeks. This is longer than the American Civil War, World war I and World war II combined. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/5/1090425.jpg)
![=5 X The total amount of Beer consumed in USA in 2006 was 6.24 Billion gallons. Enough to fill Wembley stadium 5 times with overflow. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/4/1090424.jpg)
![GRAGKED.COM Americans spend $40 billion annually on their lawns; double the amount of tax revenue collected by India in 2012.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/3/1090423.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/2/1090422.jpg)
![If someone really wants to commit suicide, there's no stopping them, right? Actually, of the 515 people prevented from committing suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge between 1937 and 1971, only six percent went on to kill themselves. A researcher in the '70s tracked them all down. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/1090421.jpg)
![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%. P ? ? 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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/1090420.jpg)
![EATING DISORDERS ARE A FEMALE PROBLEM. 25% of anorexia & bulimia sufferers, and 40% of binge eaters, are (4 20 0lbs 320 men. 300 DE S 10 145 SI 25 140 O 20 09 N Many men 062 by 0٤ 08 SEL 130 280 SE don't get 125 OF OF OZZ 120 help because SV 260 50 00 SEE 052 110 55 OIL they're CRACKED.COM 105 240 100 OZ embarrassed. 95 DEL 06 DEZ no 60 99 GL 70](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/1090419.jpg)
![BLACK WIDOWS ARE RUTHLESS AND DEADLY. SO, SO DEADLY. 1% OF THE TIME. Most of the time, a black widow won't even inject any venom into its bite. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/1090418.jpg)
![Heart attacks increase by 24% on the Monday after Daylight Savings Time kicks in. Researchers speculate that the spike has to do with a disruption in circadian rhythms and cortisol levels. And, unsurprisingly, stress. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/7/1090417.jpg)
![People think the Three Mile Island meltdown was a huge nuclear disaster. But the radiation released was equivalent to about one-sixth of a chest X-ray. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/1090416.jpg)
![Seems like a no-brainer that beautiful women have an easier REJECTED time finding jobs. But in fact, they're less likely to get hired. Researchers applied for jobs with two resumes that were effectively identical except that one would have a photo. Women's resumes with photos received 22% fewer responses, and resumes with attractive photos received 30% fewer responses. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/1090415.jpg)
![If you want to get ahead, it just makes sense that you should avoid hanging out in bars. But a study by the Journal of Labor Research found that regular drinkers make 10% to 14% more money than those who don't drink. The study also concluded that men who visit a bar at least once a month earn an additional 7% more than those who don't. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/4/1090414.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/3/1090413.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/2/1090412.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/1/1090411.jpg)
![125% -increase in chess set sales following the month after the release of The Queen's Gambit. While the pandemic saw a 25% increase in sales in the United States, the show's debut made chess sets the hot new item. Goliath Games saw an increase of 1000%. GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/9/1090409.jpg)
![1.03 billion -times the episodes of the final season of Game of Thrones were pirated while it was airing on HBO. 16.1 million viewers watched the first episode of the last season either live or later on HBO, while illegal downloads or streams amounted to a staggering 187.4 million. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/8/1090408.jpg)
![It comer to life $1-1.5 million -amount of the highest valued movie poster. CARL LAEMMIE The poster for Boris Karloff's 1932 horror classic The Mummy went on auction in 2018, but TH wasn't sold. UNCAN GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/0/1090410.jpg)
![34 million -amount of viewers who tuned in to watch Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness on Netflix in the first 10 days. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/7/1090407.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/6/1090406.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/5/1090405.jpg)
![49% -the share of consumers in the United States who have a favorable opinion of Darth Vader. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/4/1090404.jpg)