40 Fascinating and WTF Statistics We Can't Believe
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Of the 30 fastest 100 meter sprint times, 21 were run by athletes who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.The other 9 were Usain Bolt.
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Despite making up less than 4% of the population, Americans produce over 20% of the garbage in the world.
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34 percent of adults and 75 percent of children sleep with a stuffed animal or a blanket, or other sentimental object as their comfort object.
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48% of British people wouldn’t go to space even if their safety was guaranteed with the most popular reason being that they just simply didn’t have any interest in going
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There have been 288 mass shootings at schools since 2009 in the USA. The country with the next highest amount has………….. 8. To be clear they have 2.7% of the mass shootings at school that we do.
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That belly button bacteria study was wild. 60 belly buttons sampled. 2368 different species of bacteria found. The study indicated that 1458 of them may be new to science. One had a rare bacteria found in Japanese soil and they had never been to Japan. Two had rare bacteria that thrived on ice caps and thermal vents. Not a single bacteria was common to all buttons.
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There are more privately owned guns than people in the U.S. (Washington Post June 19, 2018)
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The leading cause of death for ages 5 to 18 (correction 1 through 18) has recently switched from car crashes to gun violence in the US.Your school age child is more likely to die from gun violence than any other cause, including car crashes. 21% gun violence, 20% car crashes.
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The Birthday Paradox: It only takes 23 people in the same room for there to be a 50% chance two of them share the same birthday.Difference between a million and a billion. When put in perspective by units of time, one million seconds is 12 days, one billion seconds is 31 years.
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20% of the mammal species on our planet are different types of bats.There's about 5000 species of mammals, and about 1000 of them are varieties of our little winged buddies.
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Dragonflies have a 95% hunt success rate. Making them the most effective hunters in the world.
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In 2020, overdose with a synthetic opioid (primarily fentanyl) became the LEADING cause of death in all Americans ages 18 to 45. Motor vehicle accidents were the former leading cause for this age group.
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If you made $295,000 every single day since the birth of Christ, you still wouldn't be worth what Elon Musk is.
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I read somewhere that about 80% of Indians feel that if they're too happy something bad is around the corner.
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Residents of large cities, on average, spend 6 months of their lives waiting for the green light of a traffic light.
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The risk of a heart attack is about 20% greater on Mondays for adult men, and 15% greater for adult women.
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Miscarriages are going up 1% each year and sperm count of men have gone down 50% since 1970 (US)
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Survey of Fortune 500 executives found that 93% agree the golf reflects life.86% admit to cheating at golf.
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30% of people can juggle. 75% of people dislike juggling. So that means 5% of people who can juggle don’t like juggling. (I can juggle and I honestly don’t enjoy it either).
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Watching every game of American football for a single team throughout a season (excluding playoffs and Superbowl) is the equivalent of watching 11 seasons worth of anime.
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Used to work as a meteorologist. More people die from flooding each year than from every other natural disaster added together. A good portion, at least, are people who think their cars can make it through the water when they obviously cannot.
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The most obese state in the country in 1990 (Mississippi, 15%) was still far skinnier than the least obese state in the country in 2020 (Colorado, 24%)
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If you take away every single goal Wayne Gretzky scored in his career, he would still be the All Time points leader, with just his assists alone.That’s 894 goals, 1,963 assists, for 2,857 total points. Gretzky is the GOAT of sports.
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