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42 Weird Statistics About Life That Made Us Rethink Some Things

October 31, 2023

We think we have a pretty decent handle on life at this point, but some of these statistics are making us think otherwise. It’s not all bad, just maybe not exactly how we imagined.

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GRACKED.COM Americans spend $40 billion annually on their lawns; double the amount of tax revenue collected by India in 2012. — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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There is an estimated 30 million Facebook profiles of dead people currently active f Which is more than these states populations combined CRACKED COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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=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 — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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Pink Floyd

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 — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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CRACKED.COM Last year American workers forfeited 169 million days of Vacation The equivalent of of 466,013 years or over twice as long as humans have been on Earth — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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CRACKED COM The weight of ice-cream eaten by Americans daily is more than the weight of Eiffel Tower — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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The Viagra sold in an average week can be stacked as high as the Empire State Building. Times THREE. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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COLLECTIVELY, THE HUMAN RACE HAS SPENT OVER 17,638 YEARS LISTENING TO GANGNAM STYLE ON YOUTUBE! GRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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In the past seven years, Emmy Awards for comedy of best show, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, writer, director, guest actor, and guest actress; 63 awards, were all won by only 18 shows. Of the (coincidental) 18 actors who won the comedic best actor, actress, and supporting actor or actress since 2008, 89% of them already previously had at least recurring roles on a different Emmy winning show. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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- - EUROPEAN European Vacation 6.1 VACATION The Village 6.5 Phantom Menace 6.6 ... ... The Tree of Life 6.7 Signs 6.7 Bridesmaids 6.8 WIGHT S Babe 6.9 VILI STAR Pacific Rim 7.0 EVIS 3 Poseidon Adventure 7.1 BRIb Grandma's Boy 7.1 25 movies, M Cars 7.2 Matrix Reloaded 7.2 ranked worst Transformers 7.2 Anchorman: The Legend to best by of Ron Burgundy 7.3 P. IMDB users's JENICO THEY BRING YOU THE THRUN NEWS inexplicable S - Curry ... - for Beasts of the Southern ratings BLACK TRADS MERC Wild 7.3 The father CELL ... - hat Man of Steell.7.3 WES — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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FC In 2011, Facebook users spent roughly $1.85 billion on virtual credits for games like Farmville Which could buy roughly GRACKED COM 00000000581 real trees for impoverished countries through Aid for Africa's Trees for the Future Program — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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Current United States national debt: $18,089,910,000,000 If stacked using one dollar THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA e = = = bills, the stacks would reach 9 03542754 F - ، 2 2 в the moon and back two and B03542754F 2 1 2 - a half times with 33,446 I ONE DOLLAR miles to spare. .0043 thickness x 18.089 TRILLION =1.23 million miles - not - - - KAL CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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Pac-Man

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GRACKED.COM CURRENTLY. ONLY 40% OF U.S. THAT'S ABOUT ADULTS EAT THEIR 2.5 CUPSIDAY RECCOMENDED DAILY OF EACH, PER MINIMUM SERVINGS THE USDA. OF FRUITS AND VEGGIES. THAT'S ROUGHLY 5 CUPS A DAY BUT DON'T WORRY, YOU GET YOUR GREENS! YOU SWALLOW ABOUT 43 CUPS OF SNOT (MUCUS) EVERY DAY. STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS. — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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For the 2012 Superbowl it is estimated over 4.4 million pizzas were ordered from Pizza Hut, Domino's and Papa John Enough pizza for just about every Canadian to have a slice. CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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Water

The bottled water Americans consume in just one year... Is enough to fill 15,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. GRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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More of your federal income tax dollars go towards interest on the national debt than all of these categories combined: Job Training and Employment Services Employment Training for the Disabled Elementary and Secondary Education Energy Supply and Conservation Foreign Humanitarian Assistance The National Science Foundation Natural Resources Management Environmental Protection Community Development College Financial Aid Agriculture and NASA. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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CHEESE CONSUMED IN USA YEARLY WEIGHS ABOUT 14 EMPIRE STATE BUILDINGS CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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GRACKED.COM Santa's Elves look a bit different than you imagined. 85% of artificial Christmas Trees and 80% of Toys are made in China. — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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CRACKED.COM RAMEN YO! THE amount OF INSTANT NOODLES CONSUMED IN CHINA EACH YEAR IS ENOUGH TO MAKE THREE ONE-WAY TRIPS TO PLUTO. — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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The typical American household uses about 10% of it's electricity consumption on appliances that are on standby, costing it about $100 per year. Combined, US households pay about $11.6 billion for standby power a year. That's enough to buy about 3.2 billion lbs of (or 1.5 million tons) THESE ONES Swedish meatballs or enough for X27 A380 27 Airbus A380's YUP GRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Wild Stats Wafting Through Everyday Life

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The odds of returning to a meaningful GRAGKED.COM quality of life three months after getting CPR treatment is about 3%. 36 27 13 11 SZ 6 34 17 2 21 4 y That's only slightly better than picking the correct number on a single roulette spin. — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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Terrorism

CRACKED COM ARE YOU AFRAID OF BEING ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN A TERROR ATTACK? CHILL. YOU ARE 1860 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE HIT BY A WORLD-ENDING ASTEROID THAN GETTING BOMBED BY A TERRORIST. ODDS OF DYING IN A TERROR ATTACK=1/9.3 MILLION ODDS OF EARTH BEING HIT BY A HUGE ASTEROID=1/5 5000 — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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If you are born in Australia and live to be 70, you have a 66% chance of getting skin cancer. CRACKED.COM According to the Cancer Council of Australia: Two in three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70. And 95% of melanomas will be caused by sunburns. — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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The chances of landing on any of the five most valuable properties in Monopoly on your first turn is 1.15%. BOARDWALK PARK PENNSYLVANIA NORTH PACIFIC PLACE AVENUE CAROLINA AVENUE AVENUE 1.098% 0.0004% 0.028% 0.005% 0.019% M400 M350 M320 M300 M300 When you manage to do it, you could start a new game every two hours and play non-stop for half a week before expecting to have it happen again. GRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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Flipping a coin repeatedly rarely comes out evenly. 1 2 CRACKED.COM In 100 flips, there's less than an 8% chance that you'll have 50 heads and 50 tails. — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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You know that in a room of 367 people you'll definitely find 2 people that share the same birthday. 3 3 What is truly amazing is that need you a room of 99% Jibliars just 60 people, to get a probability of for two people to share the emely same birthday. If your Office has 23 people, there's a 50/50 chance of this happening. ASK and prove it yourself! CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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You are on a game show. There are three doors on the stage, and behind one of them is an X-Box... You have a 33.33% chance. You pick the red door. The host of the show opens the yellow one, revealing nothing behind it. Не then offers you to switch and pick the green door. Should you? Does it even matter? Well, counterintuitively, the act of revealing the yellow door gives you a whooping 66.66% chance of getting that X-Box, if you switch the door! This is the famous Monty Hall problem, and the math works every time. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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Think the November The per-capita death 2015 Paris attacks toll of those attacks mean French citizens is still less than the would've been better monthly average off armed for self- per-capita death defense? toll of gun violence in the USA. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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1 out of every 2,000-3,000 babies is born with a tooth. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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CRACKED.COM Playing five rounds of Russian Roulette, adding a new bullet to the chamber each round, you have about a 1.5% chance of not shooting a bullet. That's about twice the odds of survival after having a heart attack on or above the 16th floor of a residential building. 22 23 24 19 20 21 JI 16 17 18 — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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If you get her pregnant, she is more likely to have identical twins than you are to win your state lottery's simple Pick 3 Daily Number. rex urex dutex do 0011 durex MIDDAY 1 Times - Straight 123 durex $1.00-1 Draw I I E d 123456 Pick dur Term: 12345678 So maybe spend that $1 a little more wisely... CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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GRACKED.COM If you are an American man, you are more likely to die from breast cancer than testicular cancer. — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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You have a 1 in 11.5 million chance of getting attacked by a shark... ...Which is still more likely than winning the Powerball (1 in 175 CRS million). LOTTER P o W E NEW JERSEY LOTTERY R E BALL P o ٤ POWERPLAY P POWERPLAY:NO CASH VALUE POWERPLAY CASH VAL 20.00 visit njlotter PWRB$$ - ANNOL : non 0000 PPB are bood MOOOD ..... 54, NNNNN NWNNA NOODON NAAAA GOODON 55g CI-NNO RETAILER people Med Feb0 N-NWW 312082 There who 12 still 31298200 refuse numerous NUMBER swim in the IT ocean, but love to play S WINT $2 POWERBALL WITH — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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CRACKED.COM You are more likely to die on your III h day than on any other day of the year — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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If you live in the U.S., you have one chance in 3,000 of being struck by lightning at some point during your lifetime. However, even if you happen to be that unlucky, you have a ninety percent chance of surviving the event. Of course, you'll still have to live with the effects of being, you know, struck by damn lightning. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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CRACKED.COM Life began on Earth 4 Billion years ago. Taking into account the need for single cell life to appear, evolve into complex cells, then complex life, and finally intelligent life, and applying a 10% or less, chance of each, then the probability of intelligent life *on Earth, or another earth like planet over those 4 Billion years, is: 10,000:1. With an estimated 20 Billion earth like planets in our galaxy, then the chance of life. eyolving on a planet similar to our is:.. 1:2,000,000 Where are they then? — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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I'm sorry, but it's true, we ran the test three times. The repeated tests are not due to the doctors being shocked at the result or them padding the bill. If you've.got a disease that affects 1 in 1,000 patients, and the test works 98% of the time, then it's 20 times more likely that the test was wrong, rather than you having the disease; they need to repeat the test just to make sure the error IS less likely than the result. CRACKED CON — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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The Odds of Dating a Supermodel

The odds of dating a supermodel: 1 in 88,000 The odds of getting a royal flush in poker: 1 in 649,739 You are 7 times more likely to date a supermodel than getting a royal flush! CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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CRACKED.COM In 2015 the WHO classified processed meat as a carcinogen because it increases the chance of suffering colorectal cancer by 18% (overall, from 5% to almost 6%). Smoking, on the other hand, increases the chance of lung cancer from 0.2% for non smokers to 24.4% for heavy smokers (who smoke more than 25 cigarettes per day), a 12,200% increment. — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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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 — Source: 20 Statistics About Probability That Will Blow Your Mind

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