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This post is basically a tribute to the sometimes undeservedly underrated branch of science known as statistics, which is all about collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data. From governmental census data to financial data and planning, business, sports and weather forecasting and much more, statistics is used in virtually every aspect of our lives.

It keeps us informed and in touch with current events by giving a unique perspective on facts and their relation with each other.

So in order to show us all how it was not worth it to skip stats class back in high school, we are diving into some of the most interesting threads on Reddit where people shared the most intriguing, random and mind-blowing statistics. Get yourself a cuppa and enjoy this entertaining bunch of random data below!

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 20% OR MORE of pregnancies end in miscarriage. 20% is just "known pregnancies" and doesn't take into account all the women who just think "oh, my period was a day late, weird" without realizing they've actually had a very early miscarriage.

That is stunningly high compared to what we've been led to believe. If you think of all the women you know who either have or have tried to have children, there's an excellent chance that several of them have had a miscarriage before.

When you realize exactly how common it is, it makes it that much more sad that it is so stigmatized. If we talked about it more, maybe it wouldn't catch so many people off guard.

patentspatented , Ömürden Cengiz Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, we were child less. But, we adopted two children while they were within two months of birth. Boy, they were wonderful.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective One million seconds is less than 11 days.

One billion seconds is more than 31 years.

clumaho , Nick Hillier Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The percentage of the Chinese population living in extreme poverty (living below 1.90$ a day) went from over 80% in the early 80's to 1.4% in 2014. In fact, it was still 23.1% just 10 years before that, in 2004. It's the most massive lift out of extreme poverty in world history.

Mustard_Sauc , openDemocracy Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mao utterly, completely failed to lift anyone out of poverty; the success began under Deng Xiaoping.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective If the oldest living person is 115 years old, then 116 years ago there was a totally different set of humans on earth.

icudbNE1 , Brian Fegter Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 95% of the ocean and 99% of the oceans floor remains unexplored

vogdswagon26 , Shaun Low Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Only 2 percent of people truly enjoy their jobs. The rest are in it to eat. So the next time you hear some a*****e on TEDTalk tell you to follow your dreams and your passions, remember that he is probably part of that very small percentage of people who have that luxury to fail.

anon , Nate Johnston Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 90%+ of congress members are multi-millionaires

jedledbetter , Quick PS Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective During the battle of the Somme in WW1, the British Army lost 20,000 men...on the first day.

Whole generations and towns were wiped out in the space of hours

anon , Duncan Kidd Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 4/3 of americans don't know fractions.

cronedog , Jorge Franganillo Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do know that a 1/3 pound hamburger is larger than a 1/4 pounder!

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 8% of people pronounce Wi-Fi as wiffy...8%. I don't know who you are, but I will find you...

ssmahony , Stephen Phillips - Hostreviews.co.uk Report

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Wify” or “Weefee” (short “e”) is pronouced in Slovakia as well (just with one F). As many other english words we have taken over where is “i” because we pronounce it here as english pronounce “e” and not “aj” 😁 Tried my best to explain it 😀 I think also Czech and Hungarian do it as well (Poland too?) and i think many other european countries, so i think it will be more than 8%. I just realized that in english pronuciation i heard it only in America, everywhere else i just heard “wify” 😀

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The average person in canada has a higher net worth than the average person in the USA. The median income for canadians is about twice the median income for americans.

bruceki , Conor Samuel Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Astronomer here! One that has blown my mind is statistically it is now believed that every star has extrasolar planets around it. It turns out every one near us does, at least. At the very worst case, Kepler has shown that 70% of all stars have a planet orbiting its parent star at Earth's distance or closer.

Further, per the Kepler mission data it is now believed 17% of all stars have an Earth-sized planet around it.

I mean, we knew there were a lot, but this means there's at least a trillion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy. The thought makes me giddy!

Andromeda321 , David Menidrey Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It makes me optimistic that there may be life out there, and possibly intelligent life. On the flip side, it took almost the entire life of the planet for intelligent life to appear. The earth is thought to be 4.543 billion years old. Early on, the planet was an uninhabitable ball of magma and took a while to cool and for liquid water to appear. The first life appeared 3.77 billion years ago, the first multicellular life appeared only 600 million years ago, the first dinosaurs appeared 243 and 233.23 million years ago, and the first Homo sapiens dated back to 300,000 years ago. The first civilization appeared only 4,000 to 3,000 BCE. This is relatively late as Earth can probably only support life for only another 150 mil-1.5 billion years until the sun gradually brighteners and vaporizes our planet's water depending on what models are used. If it is only 150 mil years or much less if we do it first. This means that intelligent life formed kind of at the last minute for our planet.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The leading cause of death among pregnant women in the United States is being murdered, and most often by a current or former romantic partner.
https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20010320/number-1-cause-of-death-in-pregnant-women-murder

anon , freestocks Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Around half of all trans people attempt suicide at least once

Also something like 1/3 of women with mental disabilities are sexually assaulted

Edit: so about the trans statistic this does not imply that being trans is a mental illness!! The shocking part is how awful and widespread transphobia is, and it’s consequences.

servo1025 , Dan Meyers Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the great pyramids.

AskRedditAndChewGum , Osama Elsayed Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Someone in the world [passes away] of starvation or malnutrition every three seconds.

GenJonesMom , Felton Davis Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective If you picked a random Swede and a random Canadian, the Swede would be more likely to speak English than the Canadian.

Slavaa , Toa Heftiba Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective There is a fence in Australia that stretches the equivalent distance of London to New York.

zangor , en.wikipedia.org Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are two long fences! One fence cuts off the south-east quarter of the country and is intended to stop dingos. It's about 5,600km, which is slightly longer than the distance from London to New York. The other fence cuts off the western part of the country and is intended to stop rabbits and other pests. It's about 3,300 km, so a fair bit shorter than the distance from London to New York. Obviously the post is referring to the dingo fence.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 40% of Americans cannot afford a $400 USD emergency.

anon , Jonnica Hill Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't deal with the fact ppl have to think about money when ill or hurt. I hate that. All I'm concerned about is getting to the hospital. They might make me wait if it's not as urgent as others but I'm gna get all the scans, meds and surgeries I need.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective If the earth was the size of a basketball then the atmosphere would be about as thick as a coat of paint. The only thing that separates us from the cold, harsh, vacuum of space is this comparably tiny layer of gasses that are held in place by gravity.

Another interesting one is that the only thing preventing the Earth from becoming a barren rock not unlike Mars is the fact we still have a molten core that generates a magnetic field that shields the atmosphere from being swept away by the solar wind. When the core eventually stops spinning it's game over.

winowmak3r , NASA Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Late to the party, but:

Feral cats in Australia [take out] around 377 million birds per year.

That's more than one million birds per day.

One million. Per day.

lostdrunkpuppy , Kunal Mukherjee Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why neutering and/or culling feral populations are extremely important. Lots of people don't know how destructive to the environment cats really are.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.

anotherpoweruser , Jakob Owens Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Humankind is so unbelievably stupid despite being blessed with great brains.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The first cities started around 12,000 years ago. The first evidence of writing started 6,000 years ago. Humanity appeared 200,000 years ago in its current form. So 94% of the time we've been on the planet happened before we had cities, and 97% before we had writing.

MarsNirgal , Jeremy Bezanger Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This can easily be disproven. What is writing made from? Papyrus? Rock? Ceramic? On a cave wall? If it was on anything that was biodegradable it would not still exist now after 200,000 years. Just because we have not found it does not mean it didn't exist.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective That sharks have been on this earth for some 450 million years. 450 Million Fucking Years!

mecha_tako , Jakob Owens Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective "The wars in [the Democratic Republic of Congo] have claimed nearly the same number of lives as having a 9/11 every single day for 360 days, the genocide that struck Rwanda in 1994, the ethnic cleansing that overwhelmed Bosnia in the mid-1990s, the genocide that took place in Darfur, the number of people killed in the great tsunami that struck Asia in 2004, and the number of people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- all combined and then doubled."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/27/opinion/congo-war-ignored-vava-tampa/

Weswieeee , Yukon Haughton Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was learning french. The teacher came from DRC. He said he missed his homeland. Clueless student asked " then why did you leave"?" The pained look on his face was heartbreaking.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective I've posted this before on a similar thread, but..

Had an Economics Professor blow my mind with this. Most people think of millions, billions and trillions relatively similarly. They are huge numbers and when talking about money not very many people really ever have to account with numbers that high to see the incredible difference between each. I think this does a great job of breaking it down.



If you made **$1/second**, you'd be really really rich. At that rate, you would make:

**$60** in 1 minute

**$3600** in 1 hour

**$86,400** in 1 day

**$1 Million ($1,000,000)** in 11.574 days

**$1 Billion ($1,000,000,000)** in 31.7 years

**$1 Trillion ($1,000,000,000,000)** in 31,709 years



For one person who makes a Million dollars every 12 days to pay off the US National Debt (21.461 Trillion according to www.usdebtclock.org), it would take over **680,506 years.**

southernmayd , Keith Cooper Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective There are more possible combinations to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on earth... and if you started shuffling a new combination every second starting at the big bang, you'd still be shuffling right now...

anon , Poker Photos Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 90% of people live in the northern hemisphere

username-alrdy-takn , Greg Rosenke Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Likely due to the estimation that 68% of the Earth’s land exists in the Northern Hemisphere, while 32% is located in the Southern Hemisphere.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The bible is the most shoplifted book in history.

mhaydar , Ugur Akdemir Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective It takes an individual photon several millenia to go from the center to the surface of the sun.

Then it takes only 8 minutes to reach Earth, and a couple days at most to leave the solar system.

MarsNirgal , Bryan Goff Report

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's from our perspective. Apparently, the photon itself does not experience the passage of time. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/09/30/how-do-photons-experience-time/?sh=28182762278d

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective So far, 46 people have [passed away] by lawn mowers in the U.S. this year. 46.

Corrupt_Files , Carnaby Gilany Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective More [lives are taken away] by vending machines than by sharks.

ObscureKitten , Per-Olof Forsberg Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective More infuriating than mind-blowing, but a commonly shared “statistic” is that 80% of women who make at least 6 figures do so through direct sales marketing, aka, MLMs or pyramid schemes, like Mary Kay, Amway, and Herbalife.

The *actual* statistic is that 80% of *people* who make at least 6 figures *through MLMs* are women. There’s only about 200 of them, and they’re all at the top of their respective pyramids, but the first statistic is commonly used to try and entice new people into the company.

FencingFemmeFatale , Anna Shvets Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective I go to one of the top universities in the US, and I recently found out that 45% of our student population is in the top 5%, wealth-wise. I most definitely am not, and it made a lot of sense but was incredibly disheartening at the same time.

angelicomens , Drahomír Posteby-Mach Report

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The average number of legs, for humans, is less than 2.

cronedog , Rob Wilson Report

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But consider this - since there are always pregnant people, the average number of skeletons in a person's body is always above 2.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 99% of the wild African grey parrot population had disappeared since 1992. Solely due to the illegal trapping for the pet trade.
Indian and nepalese vulture populations have declined by 99% since 2000 due to diclofenac poisoning.

Leigh-ann , Jakob Pfalz Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who is giving them diclofenac? Or is it some naturally occurring thing?

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective In the year 8000 B.C. there were 5 million humans on Earth.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why is there a photo of a contemporary indigenous gathering to illustrate a post about "8000 bc"?

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Greater Tokyo has a larger population than Canada.

Logic_Nuke , Joseph Chan Report

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And every other sane country with gun control had less mass shootings than America

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The existence of the T-Rex is closer in time to today than it is to the existence of the Stegosaurus.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can't be. I've seen them together in several documentaries called "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World"

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 90% of Native Americans were wiped out due to diesease

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now, many live in poverty on the reservations. ☹️

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 92% of Downs Syndrome foetus' are aborted once detected by screening (in Europe).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are lucky to have the science and the option! No parents or kids need to suffer.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective F1 drivers lose around 5kg of weight every race.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The population of the world has doubled since the mid 70's.

IntrepidC , Ishan @seefromthesky Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why don't we talk about the huge problem of overpopulation anymore?? It is so taboo now! We need to curb population growth!!

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective In the US if you do the following 3 things:

1. Graduate High School
2. Get and keep *any* job
3. Don't have a child out of wedlock

You have a 75% chance of being in the middle class and a *98%* chance of living above the poverty line.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/

probablynotdrunk , Ryoji Iwata Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But is this causation or correlation? Seems more like correlation.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The battle of Stalingrad alone claimed significantly more lives than all the US servicemen killed in our nation's entire history.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The Vatican has 2.3 popes per square mile.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if jenny is walking in the vatican, and has walked 5 square miles, and there are approximately 2.3 popes per square mile, approximately how many popes has jenny trod upon?

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 1 in 4 people in the UK suffer from a mental health issue.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Among a random group of 23 people, theres a 50% chance two of them share the same birthday

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective There are more prisons than colleges in the US.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective Ants have a larger biomass than humans.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like the word "collectively" should be in there somewhere

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#51

50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective In the field of psychology, women outnumber men 2:1. Not mind-blowing, but kinda interesting

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective 1/4 children in the United States are overweight

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most cheap food is the unhealthy stuff, so that it one contributer

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#53

6.5 out of 10 black kids grow up in a single parent home. For you non stats people, you can read that as 13 out of 20 kids.

This stat only applies to US.

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[Support for interracial marriage became the majority shortly after **1995.**](https://news.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-whites.aspx)

[Among Republicans, 28% still oppose interracial marriage as of March 2018 (pg 92), the worst demographic for this statistic by a margin of 8%](https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/y3tke5cxwy/econTabReport.pdf)

Overall, 17% still oppose interracial marriage.

Likewise, 68% of Republicans oppose gay relationships (not marriage); the second worst demographic being people over the age of 65, at 55%.

Overall, 43% of americans still oppose same-sex relationships.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was younger I admired US. I thought, it was the source of progress. Growing older the only thing I see is narrow mindedness, suppressiveness, ignorance, lack of empathy, greed.

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If the whole of existence since the Big Bang were collapsed into [one year](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar#/media/File%3ACosmic_Calendar.png), modern humans developed at 8 minutes to midnight and Columbus landed in the New World 1.2 seconds before midnight. Kind of puts it all in perspective.

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8% of Mongolians are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.
Worldwide, .5% of the population, or 1 in 200, are direct descendants.

Edited: My mistake, 0.5% not .05%.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe; maybe not! Sometimes 'facts' are repeated too much that they become true. I'm not a geneticist but if my history is right Genghis Khan gained prominence by banding clans from a general area. So, maybe these guys had the Y-chromosome from an even earlier descendant (who's not as famous).

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#57

In 1988, 8 of the 10 largest companies (by market cap) were Japanese and the largest company in Japan was bigger than the 6 biggest US companies combined.

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According to these guys https://companiesmarketcap.com/ the largest Japanese company (Toyota) is 37th. Of the top 10, 8 are American, one Chinese and one Saudi (at the time of writing, of course).

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Statistically, the biggest beneficiary of Affirmative Action college admissions policies have been White women, not minorities, because gender discrimination is included in the policy.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And yet some complains about how they lost their spot to the person of colour with the scholarship scheme over affirmative action

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"Stanley and Brodsky estimated that as many as 75% of patients with borderline personality disorder make at least one nonlethal suicide attempt, and even higher percentages of patients, especially of hospitalized patients, engage in self-injurious behavior."

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All the planets in the solar system could fit between earth and the moon.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective The [take out] radius of a neutron star quake. Keep in mind that the richter scale is log based and a neutron star quake has been recorded as high as an equivalent 34 and would cause mass extinction to a radius of 10 light years. The distance from the earth to the sun is one AU. The distance from earth to pluto is about 40 AU. Earth to the farthest object in our solar system (the edges of the oort cloud at 120,000 AU) is roughly 1.87 lightyears. A neutron star quake would exterminate all life in all directions a little over 5 times the entire distance of our solar system. This all from a neutron star’s surface adjusting by a few micrometers in less than .000001 of a second. The earthquake that leveled San Fran and [took away] thousands of people in the early 20th century was a 7.4. Cool, now imagine a quake with destructive energy about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stronger.

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#62

The distance from the bottom of the Marinara Trench to the top of Mt. Everest is only 12.31 miles.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective There are more State Farm agencies than McDonalds in the US. Learned that when I started working for them.

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465 acid attacks in London in 2017

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/26/europe/london-acid-attacks-2017-intl/index.html

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not heard about it for a while, not sure if there was some weird trend, or if "acid control" is a thing.

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Half of the people in human history who lived to age 65 are alive today.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, what? That reads like of all the people in history, half of the 65 year olds are still alive. It is late for me, so my reading comprehension is probably poor right now.

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Klay Thompson scored 60 points in an NBA game while only dribbling the basketball 11 times.. Or Wilt Chamberlin averaging 48.5 minutes per game for an ENTIRE NBA season.. NBA games are only 48 minutes long. That means he had to play every minute of every game plus whatever games went into overtime. Bamboozling.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Michael Jordan used to DOUBLE dribble more than 11 times in a game.

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Only one in five Italians have a college degree.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most people outside the USA don't know what a 'college' degree is. Is it a uni degree or something more general?

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15% of Google searches every day have never been searched before, this has trended the last 15 years source

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective If Wayne Gretzky never scored a single goal, he would still be the NHL’s all time point leader.

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You have a better chance at winning the Powerball jackpot than dying of a shark attack.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So what are the odds that a shark would win Powerball?

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California's water distribution system loses 228 billion gallons annually, enough water to supply Los Angeles for a year. The state is experiencing severe drought.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if the water is evaped, doesn't it go up and then come down (perhaps not in CA, but the water isn't "lost" just lost to our dry, dry state.

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Over 800 people die from being strangled by their bedsheets.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It looks like it's 800 people per year, mainly made up of infants, the elderly and the disabled https://www.quora.com/How-do-800-people-a-year-die-from-being-tangled-in-bedsheets

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Only 35% of people in the UK know what to do to save an unconscious person's life.

Source: St John's Ambulance in the UK

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Children should be taught basic 1st aid and CPR in school ( it's St John , no s Ambulance)

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#74

The Willis Tower in Chicago has 104 elevators.

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The Earths mass is only made up by 0.006% water.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And being the intelligent animals that we are, we have poluted our drinkable water (and the non-drinkable as well) and continue to do so.

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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective CPR is only effective 5-8% of the time without immediate defibrillation. So if your heart stops and there isn't an AED within about 3-5 mins of you you're probably going to [pass away].

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does NOBODY know what a defibrillator actually does?! It doesn't restart the heart, it fixes irregular heartbeats.

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Since 1874, there have been 10 recorded [shark attacks in Canada.](http://www.sharkattackdata.com/place/canada)

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#78

It takes more energy to brute force a bitcoin private key using a perfectly efficient system, than exists in the universe.

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That Scott Steiner had a 66 and 2/3rds chance at beating Samoa Joe and Kurt angle at TNA Sacrifice.

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African-American males make up ~6% of the population in the US yet commit ~50% of the homicides. We are completely unwilling to address uncomfortable facts honestly. Racism exists but is insufficient to explain the troubling statistics in the black community. Blaming all the issues facing African-Americans on racism and oppression is counterproductive and will lead to more needless black deaths.

http://www.factsareracist.com

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/08/10/african-american-homicide-rate-nearly-quadruple-national-average-11680

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, African Americans are CONVICTED of 50% of homicides. That does not mean they COMMIT 50% of homicides but you don't want to hear that do you?

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Guns save more lives than they take, and the United States doesn’t have the highest *rate* of mass shootings... Norway does.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And here we have the perfect example is how statistics can be manipulated to serve most any purpose. This stupid and misleading “fact” dates back to the 2011 mass shooting in Norway. No one is buying your pro-gun b******t.

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