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35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know

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Remembering all the math I did in high school, I can only say that looking at numbers can be confusing. Or just boring. But sometimes, they can offer you a better understanding of the world than a news show. And in a much more entertaining fashion, too.

In October, Redditor u/alexbbtkd asked other platform users, "What's a crazy statistic?" and has received plenty of answers. We've combed through all of them and picked out the most surprising ones just to broaden your horizons. So put on your smarty pants, get a notebook, and enjoy!

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#1

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know If you were to compress earth’s existence into a 24 hour day, life would first appear at 4am, plants would first appear at 10pm, dinosaurs from about 11pm-11:40pm, and humans emerge at 11:59pm.

From Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”

justf*ckinwitya , Greg Rosenke Report

Final score:

288points

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#2

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know You are more likely to be bitten by a stranger in New York City than by a shark anywhere else in the nation.

You are more likely to be killed by a vending machine than by a shark.

What we can learn from this is that strange vending machines in NYC should be avoided at all cost

rhett342 , Nariman Mosharrafa Report

Final score:

276points

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#3

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know That the Catholic Church hid a (now self) reported 8.4 child rapes per day for over 71 years.

northsidemassive , Channel 82 Report

Final score:

269points

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#4

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know That there are A LOT more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people.

JethroKirby , Eric Muhr Report

Final score:

256points

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#5

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know The average person is a 28 year old Chinese man

PassMeThatPerrier , Good Faces Report

Final score:

248points

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#6

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know 40% of homeless are employed.

coppertin , Nick Fewings Report

Final score:

239points

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#7

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know The top 10% of drinkers account 60% of all alcohol consumed in the US. And they drink the equivalent of 74 drinks per week.

So the entire alcoholic beverages industry is kept alive by severe alcoholics.

WaTar42 , Pawel Kadysz Report

Final score:

224points

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#8

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know One third of adults still sleep with a comfort object

real_Tfilms , Sharon McCutcheon Report

Final score:

212points

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#9

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know There is more actual lemon in Lemon Pledge cleaner than there is in Country Time lemonade

jackof47trades , Julia Peretiatko Report

Final score:

211points

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#10

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know More first responders and survivors have now died due to 9/11 related illnesses than the number lost at Ground Zero on the day of the attack. The number will continue to rise because of the huge amount of health problems caused by the dust and smoke that everyone in the surrounding areas inhaled when/after the towers fell.

jodaqua , Anthony Fomin Report

Final score:

202points

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#11

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know The U.S government has 'misplaced' six thermonuclear warheads. They were either lost or stolen in transit and at this juncture, one of the largest nuclear superpowers in the world has no idea where they are.

CaptainExplosions , wikipedia Report

Final score:

190points

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#12

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know It is estimated that bears kill over two million salmon a year. Attacks by salmon on bears are much more rare.

triclops47 , Pradeep Nayak Report

Final score:

186points

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#13

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know The most common cause of death for pregnant women is homicide

possiblyhysterical , Suhyeon Choi Report

Final score:

181points

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#14

40% of cops are domestic abusers

moistowletts Report

Final score:

172points

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#15

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know 86% of British people live within 8 miles from where they were born.

Jasonhopkins99 , Gregory Hayes Report

Final score:

169points

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#16

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know Sharks predate trees by 100 million years…

minnow99 , Alex Steyn Report

Final score:

166points

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#17

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know There are more combinations in a 52 deck of cards than stars in the known universe.

GuccGunBushWacker97 , Amanda Jones Report

Final score:

163points

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#18

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know 39% of the world's population is overweight and that number is only getting "bigger"

Crazylivykid , towfigu Report

Final score:

161points

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#19

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know If you were born in 1923 in the Soviet Union as a male, you would have an 80% chance of dying in world war II.

Proud-Pain-7064 , Kevin Schmid Report

Final score:

160points

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#20

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know In the US, you are more likely to be killed by a cow than you are to be killed by a coyote.

[deleted] , Wolfgang Hasselmann Report

Final score:

158points

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#21

Humans, (Homo sapien sapien), appeared on earth ~200,000 yrs. ago and didn't reach a population of 1 billion until 1804. About one hundred years later, 1920's, there were 2 billion. We now add a billion people to the planet every 12 years.

ProudLiberal54 Report

Final score:

151points

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#22

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know That you can fit all the planets in our solar system between the Earth and the Moon and still have some room spare.

Mind blown

Aggsthen , Harman Smith and Laura Generosa Report

Final score:

150points

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#23

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.

Redshift_1 , Selvan B Report

Final score:

149points

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#24

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know 1 in 3 Australians will be diagnosed with a skin cancer by the time they're 70.

Edit. Google search actually says (multiple times) that "at least 2 in 3 will be diagnosed with skin cancer by 70"

F*ck.

romilliad , Spute2008 Report

Final score:

147points

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#25

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know We are closer in time to the birth of Cleopatra than she was to the construction of the Great Pyramid

TonyHerbs , 20thcenturystudios Report

Final score:

139points

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#26

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know According to the FBI, there are currently more than 25 active serial killers in the US

timelizard13 Report

Final score:

134points

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#27

The United States "land of the free" incarcerates more citizens per capita than any other country: US: 629 inmates per 100,000 citizens

Compared to other countries: Cuba: 510, Brazil: 381, Russia: 326, China: About 250, Mexico: 169, UK: 131, France: 100

rohnoitsrutroh Report

Final score:

132points

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#28

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know Broccoli has more protein per calorie than a steak.

NuttyNatterer , Louis Hansel Report

Final score:

119points

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#29

1 out of 25 people are sociopaths. No automatic sense of empathy.

CheeCheeReer Report

Final score:

117points

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#30

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know There are approximately 78,000,000,000,000 000,000 atoms in a grain of sand.

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Final score:

111points

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#31

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know 60% of people with Bipolar disorder are unemployed

[deleted] , Andre Styles Report

Final score:

109points

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#32

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know One in 4 people have had sex at work

FatesCause , krakenimages Report

Final score:

106points

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#33

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know Men are about 7 times more as successful at suicide than women.

adamsbrad47 , Ethan Sykes Report

Final score:

104points

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#34

Human life expectancy has increased more rapidly in the past 50 years than in the past 200,000 years.

Final score:

103points

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#35

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know 20% of produce and fruit in the usa is never sold and is left to rot

qmrk346 , Anton Darius Report

Final score:

100points

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#36

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know One in seven Americans receives food from food banks or similar sources.

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#37

"44% of older Millennials already have a chronic health condition."

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41points

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#38

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know As many as 95 percent of millennials are "not saving adequately" for retirement

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Final score:

41points

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#39

Statistically the deadliest job in the US is president

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Final score:

40points

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#40

From 1970 to 2000ish, US median household income and home prices were on an almost perfect straight line (r=0.997 and r=0.987 respectively). Using the regression line (y=ax+b), the predicted median income in 2021 was 75k and the median home price was 194k. Actual median income is 67k and median home price is 330k.

Final score:

37points

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#41

The average drunk driver has likely drove under the influence 80 times before arrest.

Final score:

37points

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#42

Our galaxy is about 100,000 light years across, and there are about 2 Trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

DeathSpiral321 Report

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36points

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#43

The global rate for washing hands after using the toilet is under 20%

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Final score:

33points

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#44

One in 36 boys has autism

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#45

You actually lose money when you put it in savings accounts because the apy (annual percentage yeild) does not match inflation of the dollar.

To put it simply. You put 100 dollars into a savings account on January 1 2020 with the national average apy of .05% and leave it for one year. Your interest will have gained you 5 cents. In that same year, the US dollar inflated (lost buying power) by 1.23% It may appear as if you had a gain as your balance shows 100.05 however that amount now has the same buying power as 98.82 one year ago.

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Final score:

32points

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#46

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know Statistics show that men have about a one in two chance of developing cancer during their lifetime, while women have a one in three chance.

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#47

Humans only eat 40% of all the corn produced in the world. The remaining 60% is used in a wide variety of products, from fuel to toothpaste.

Ragesama Report

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#48

35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know you are 5x more likely to get struck by lightning than be 7ft tall

Zealousideal_Ear4423 , Josep Castells Report

Final score:

28points

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#49

The human brain processes visual information in 13 milliseconds, which is apparently 60,000 times faster than processing text

SunbroRyguy Report

Final score:

26points

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#50

How you are more likely to die in your bathtub than a roller coaster

quantumCult1522 Report

Final score:

22points

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#51

35 percent of all US dollars were printed in the last 12 months

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22points

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#52

80% of Australia’s population live around the coastal areas.

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#53

A fire will double in volume every 14 seconds given unlimited fuel.

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#54

You spend about 2yrs being hungover.

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I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

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Piet Puk 2 years ago

There are more airplanes on the bottom of the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.

39points

Tami 2 years ago

Thanks for my daily chuckle!

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Tami 2 years ago

These threads are interesting, but I feel I have to check the facts on every post. And it seems lots of readers don't bother to do that. Scary.

21points

Jaekry 2 years ago

First day on the internet? :)

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Kickin' Wing 2 years ago

I bet ABH Inc. wrote this whole thread.

10points

ADHORTATOR 2 years ago

Thank you for the laugh :-)

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Dilly Millandry 2 years ago

Large chunks taken from Wikipedia!!

5points

Auntriarch 2 years ago

Snort-laugh!

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Piet Puk 2 years ago

There are more airplanes on the bottom of the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.

39points

Tami 2 years ago

Thanks for my daily chuckle!

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Tami 2 years ago

These threads are interesting, but I feel I have to check the facts on every post. And it seems lots of readers don't bother to do that. Scary.

21points

Jaekry 2 years ago

First day on the internet? :)

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Kickin' Wing 2 years ago

I bet ABH Inc. wrote this whole thread.

10points

ADHORTATOR 2 years ago

Thank you for the laugh :-)

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Dilly Millandry 2 years ago

Large chunks taken from Wikipedia!!

5points

Auntriarch 2 years ago

Snort-laugh!

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