30 Weird Statistics That Are Somehow True

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Statistics is a weird game. When you look at the world through a fancypants math-scientist-man view, things get a little weird. But, according to the number-nerds who come up with this stuff, it's all true, and pretty wild.

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Women use an average of 20,000 words a day, compared to the mere 7,000 that men utter.

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Hold up your hands and clap them together.Wait one second, then do it again.If you could plot the distance between the first clap and the second clap, it would be more than 800 kilometers.This is because the Earth is moving around the sun, the sun is moving around the center of the galaxy, the galaxy is moving through the Virgo Supercluster, and the Virgo Supercluster is barreling through the universe. When you add up all the velocities and compare the result to the cosmic microwave background (which is the closest thing we have to a universal frame of reference), it comes out to about 800 kilometers per second.In the time it took you to read this, you've traveled farther than you'll ever walk in your life.

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80% of Orange Tabby cats are male.

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Australia has more kangaroos than humans.

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Wearing a seatbelt correctly reduces chance of front seat passenger fatality due to front end collision by 45%. Seat belts save lives people, wear them. Also airbags are more likely to cause injuries rather than prevent them when seat belts are not worn.

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The tallest giraffe ever measured (George) was 19 feet (5.8m) tall.The longest crocodile ever measured (Lolong) was 20.25 feet (6.17m) longSo take the tallest giraffe you've ever seen, and then add a little, and you've got the biggest crocodile ever measured reliably with a tape measure down its back.Herpetologists agree that sightings of crocodiles up to 23 feet are not unreasonable, but they're very hard to capture when they're that big. Therefore, no absolutely reliable numbers.

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Statistically speaking the average person is a 30 year old Chinese man.

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Sharks are older than trees. Sharks are at least 400 million years old, trees are sitting at 350 million years.Edit: Also another fun fact, sharks are so successful when it comes to evolution and long term survival because of a trait called "Adaptive Radiation", which is a huge increase of species diversity in a short period of time. Modern sharks stem from an adaptive radiation that happened during the Jurassic Period about 200 million years ago. One of the newest modern sharks is the hammerhead, coming in at around 50 million years.

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If you're in a group of twenty-three people, there's a 50% chance that two of them share a birthday.If you're in a group of seventy people, that probability jumps to over 99%.

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86% of British people live within 8 miles from where they were born.

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Fat leaves our body 86% through the breath. The other 14% leaves our body through water.

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The richest 1% dudes in the world have more wealth than the rest of the planet.The world's 8 richest men have as much money as the poorest half, 3,6 billions people.

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Britain had more planes at the end of the Battle of Britain than at the beginning, because they were being made at such an incredible rate that it surpassed the losses.

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3-4 billion people on this planet earn $2.50 or less per day.

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It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

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Til the world record for children born to one woman is 69. She had 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

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If you and your spouse both have a divorce under your belt , and one (or both) of you have MORE than one divorce under your belt, the failure rate of your marriage is 93%.

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South America is moving away from Africa at about the same speed your fingernails grow.

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Only 3% of the Earth's water is fresh.

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The average cumulus cloud weighs more than the Statue of Liberty.

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25% of California’s air pollution is from China.

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Over 1 million earths could fit into the sun.

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25% of the earths crust is actually made of iron like in your cereal.

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If all the humans alive right now lived in the same density per square mile as New York City, we could all live in the state of Texas.

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3% of everyone on earth alive in 1939 died in WWII.

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There are more trees on planet Earth than there are stars in our galaxy.

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85% of all Americans live within 20 minutes of a Walmart.

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The Vatican has 5.9 popes per square mile.

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My History lecturer told us the other day that more US Soldiers died in the Civil war than US Soldiers have died in all other wars ever, combined.

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The average person has one ovary, one teste, less than 2 arms.