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Some, like mathematician Roger Antonsen, believe that numbers are the key to understanding the world. (Antonsen even gave a brilliant TED talk to explain this statement, which I highly recommend.) And there's a Reddit thread that vividly illustrates the point.
It started when platform user JustinMGH made a post, asking others to share facts and stats that sound like obvious exaggerations but actually aren't.
Immediately, people started delivering fascinating, weird, and even disturbing titbits of information, changing each other's perspective about everything around them, even if ever so slightly.
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#1
The difference between million and billion is huge (relatively):
1 Million seconds = 11 Days
1 Billion seconds = 31 years
#2
The budget to send to the Curiosity Rover to the Mars is less than the worldwide military expenditure for thirteen hours
#3
Cleopatra was alive closer to the Moon landing than she was to the construction of the great pyramids.
Tabby_Sohee 1 year ago
I’ve heard this one a hundred times and it blows my mind every single time… what a history
#4
USA citizens privately own more firearms than all countries combined. Even more than most militaries.
#5
Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart less than 150 miles away from each other.
Captain Kyra 1 year ago
Barbara Walters, Anne Frank, and Martin Luther King Jr were all born the same year.
#6
The original height of Mount Everest was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 ft in order to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate.
#9
1 in 2 Australians will get skin cancer in their lifetime
Jason 1 year ago
Forgot all the things living outside that can kill you. Just walking outside can
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Agfox 1 year ago
Can confirm, am Australian & had a squamous cell carcinoma removed from the back of my left leg 10 days ago
SarDemMin 1 year ago
I hope you make 100% recovery and hope the cancer never returns! F*ck cancer.
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MargyB 1 year ago
In Tasmania the weather is colder than the rest of Aus but our sun is stronger. You'll burn even if you think it's cold
Jack Holt 1 year ago
Indeed. As soon as you feel the sun, the burning statts
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The Happy Hijabi 1 year ago
It's true. I was 12 when I was told that I had some moles that were melanomas. The doctor couldn't even cut them out until I was much older, so I just had to live with cancer in the back of my neck for most of my teen years.
Nancy Tate-Leach 1 year ago
No I am sorry, melanoma is deadly. No doctor would leave it there to grow. You may have misunderstood.
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Pope Francis Official™ 1 year ago
Nah high rates but not as high, Aussies got the brunt.
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nuberiffic 1 year ago
The UV index where I am today is 13. 10 is considered "extreme". And it's only just starting to get hot.
StrangeTrout 1 year ago
Unfortunately, sunscreen doesn't stop cancer. It will help with melanoma, but it's not a cure.
Senjo Krane 1 year ago
Probably applies to all light skinned people in the southern hemisphere.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
'Sun safety' is an ongoing campaign here, but the effect of the message has been waning. A new emphasis is needed.
John Topper 1 year ago
I initially thought this would be BS, but it is, astonishingly, not. If anything, it is understated. Other estimates say 2/3. Crazy
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
That's why we in Britain have extensive rotational training programmes with the Aussies for dermatologists. Our dermatologists go to Oz to learn about sun damage, theirs come here to learn about literally anything else.
JoJo Anisko 1 year ago
Isn't "in their lifetime" a bit redundant? Not gonna get it before they're born nor after they die.
#10
Neutron stars are so dense that if you dropped a gummy bear from one meter away it would hit the surface in a microsecond with the force of 1,000 nuclear bombs.
#11
The state of Maine has more Black Bears than black people.
oktopus 1 year ago
This does actually appear to be more-or-less correct, depending on the estimation of the bear population and the accuracy of the first Maine demographic statistics which popped up in a quick web search. Also, with the same caveat, there seems to be approximately one black bear for every square mile of Maine.
#12
Vatican city has a population of 2 popes per 1 square kilometer.
#13
More silent films have been lost than saved
We live in an era where everything is saved, and it's hard to imagine such a massive loss of creative material. Plenty of films are lost, as late as the 1970s too.
#14
Monsters Inc was released closer to the fall of the Berlin wall than to the present day.
#15
All the ants in the world weigh about the same as all the people in the world.
Headless Roach 1 year ago
Also, they work extremely hard and live only about 8 days, while turtles don't do shït and get to live 150 years. Let it sink in.
#16
Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire.
#17
You could walk from North Korea to Norway and only pass through one other country.
Also, your feet would be a little sore.
#18
Radio astronomer here! You exert more energy when you unfold a single piece of paper than we have collected in *all* the radio waves we have *ever* collected from outer space.
#19
In a room with 23 people there is a ~50% chance that 2 people share a birthday
#20
According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, every two days human beings create as much information as we did from the dawn of time until 2003.
What do you think ?
Jordan 1 year ago
The same facts that BP has posted 20 million times before. This s**t has been posted over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Annoying af
Biliegh they/them 1 year ago
I try posting new articles and for whatever reason BP just won't publish them. Wonder how many people try and get the same results.
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Bob La Capra 1 year ago
9 US states have more cattle than people. Texas is not one of them due to being very populous but Texas has more cattle than there are people in 45 states and DC.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
A light bulb, which is known as the Centennial Light, has been burning at a Livermore, CA firehouse since 1901. It is very rarely turned off, which accounts for its longevity, since turning bulbs off and on contributes to wear and tear. To put it in perspective, this bulb has been around longer than powered flight, and was shining all through the Chicago Cubs' notorious World Series drought.
Jordan 1 year ago
The same facts that BP has posted 20 million times before. This s**t has been posted over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Annoying af
Biliegh they/them 1 year ago
I try posting new articles and for whatever reason BP just won't publish them. Wonder how many people try and get the same results.
Load More Replies... Bob La Capra 1 year ago
9 US states have more cattle than people. Texas is not one of them due to being very populous but Texas has more cattle than there are people in 45 states and DC.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
A light bulb, which is known as the Centennial Light, has been burning at a Livermore, CA firehouse since 1901. It is very rarely turned off, which accounts for its longevity, since turning bulbs off and on contributes to wear and tear. To put it in perspective, this bulb has been around longer than powered flight, and was shining all through the Chicago Cubs' notorious World Series drought.
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