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Qubeye , Mental Health America (MHA) Report

#2

A black man in St. Louis is more likely to be killed by a police officer than the average US citizen is to get murdered at all.

Whether you think BLM is a bunch of horse s**t or not, Republican or Democrat, or whatever, this stat is pretty interesting. Mind you, a subset of the US population probably doesn't even believe that statistic is true.

Final score:

343points

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Kelli 2 years ago

Sadly, that statistic is accurate, however the statistic of being killed in an elementary school by a lunatic with an AR 15 legally purchased goes up daily.

167points

#3

80% of Orange Tabby cats are male.

kitkat_pro , Sam Chang Report

Final score:

306points

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ᴇᴅᴇɴ 2 years ago

Aww I love the picture of the cat <3

90points

#4

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

danthemanning , State Farm Report

Final score:

285points

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Kelli 2 years ago

Idiots whined about a piece of cloth that could save them from a deadly virus, don’t try talk sense to the senseless.

239points

Lothar Ohr 2 years ago

People would cut their seatbelt in protest when it became law. People struggle with change even to save their lives

28points

Kay Kelly 2 years ago

Wish I could upvote you 500 times!

10points

Ivo H 2 years ago

(please don't judge me too harsh as I'm one of the most pro-facemask people around) I can see a difference. When I exaggerate a lot, it's like the diffference between wearing a bracelet and wearing a blindfold. Both are 'only a piece of cloth', but the later is far more limiting. You practically don't even notice wearing a seatbelt, but you do wearing a facemask (you cannot drink coffee, eat, smoke etc. without taking it off), you can do it with seatbelt on. So yes, facemask is more limiting than seatbelt (And yes, it SHOULD BE WORN DURING PANDEMIC). Just wanted to say people who don't wearing seatbelts are little bit more idiotic than antimaskers, because seatbelts just don't even have any disadvantages at all.

5points

Pixie 2 years ago

Ivo, seatbelts have disadvantages, as soon as your body is different from the "average white male" form, that they are designed for (that is just a fact). As a small, not slim, and big-chested woman on default a seatbelt sits on me in a way that it doesn't go along my shoulder but across my neck. So, since I don't want to be strangled by my seatbelt, thankyouverymuch, I have to constantly angle my seating and after every movement adjust the seatbelt across my chest. it is mostly unconscious these days, but alway always there. Along these lines, it is kind of new that the automobile industry uses crash test dummies that are not average male, but average woman and child, too. And yes, these dummies got a lot more damage in the test, because safety standards are not made for them.

18points

Berdarien Brown 2 years ago (edited)

I'm sorry but a loincloth isn't going to save me from a deadly virus and it chafes. Oh sorry i was just told I'm wearing it in the wrong area. And I was asked to leave Walmart. Carry on.

4points

Cass Malone 2 years ago

Probably the same ppl that were pissy about seatbelts when they were being debated

1point

jimmy pop 2 years ago

Well, not quite. The difference is that the piece of cloth mainly might save other people's lives, not the wearer's.

1point

Mark Johanen 2 years ago

The objection, of course, was that it is not the right or responsibility of the government to decide what health and safety measures I should take. Does wearing a seat belt save lives? Yes. Would not driving at all save even more lives? Yes. Would wearing a hazmat suit 24/7 save lives? Yes. Would testing all your food for poison before you ate it save lives? Yes. Would spending your life hiding in your basement save even more lives? Yes. Who decides when a safety measure is worth the cost and inconvenience, and when it's not? The person affected? Or a bureaucrat in Washington?

-2points

Jane Smith 2 years ago

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R D 2 years ago

It's in my system, even when I take something out of the car, as soon as my butt touches the carseat I automatically put my seatbelt on ..

16points

Justme 2 years ago

Yep - except I lock the doors first.

1point

Péter Rózsahegyi 2 years ago

Also ask all the people on second and other rows to fasten their seatbelts, too. When in a full frontal collision a body of a 80kg human flies towards the seat of the driver and smashes it with around 40g (that's 3.2 metric tons = cca. 7000 pounds on the back-rest), there is no seat frame that could save the life of the driver/front seat passenger.

9points

Sir Beer Korma 2 years ago

Similarly for pets, tools, luggage

1point

aj 2 years ago

I just wish seatbelts could adapt to the driver/passenger. It's scary to know that the way they're designed is for an average man so shorter people or women (different body shape, if they consider it at all when crash testing they're just using smaller male dummies) aren't as safe even when wearing the seatbelt properly.

8points

LandAhoy (she/they) 2 years ago

yes. I'm 5ft 5 (taller than average for a woman) and the seat belt slices into my neck. feels like it would decapitate me. Unless I tuck it under my armpit which you're not supposed to do. Extremely uncomfortable.

7points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

No seatbelt plus airbag equals amazing force (as in physics) on the cervical spine and rib cage. Dont do ti. Wear the belt.

7points

Nicky 2 years ago

Women are significantly more likely to be seriously injured or die in car crashes because all the seat beat testing is done to accommodate larger male drivers and passengers.

6points

Night Owl 2 years ago (edited)

and car safety is required to be tested only on crash test dummies modeled on male bodies (and modeled on baby and child bodies for baby and child car seats)

0points

Aline Cahill 2 years ago

Also keep your children in rear facing carseat for as long as possible

4points

Shaun Jeffs 2 years ago

The second part of this is false. Airbags are less effective when not paired up with a seatbelt, but are NOT more dangerous than a no-seatbelt no-airbag combination. Look up NHTSA’s 5th 6th Report to Congress.

2points

🅼🅸🅺🅴 🅿🅴🅽🅲🅴🆂 🅵🅻🆈 2 years ago

“bUt My UnClE cOuLd’Ve DiEd If He WoRe HiS!!!”

2points

LandAhoy (she/they) 2 years ago

Except they are designed for the average man. For everybody under 5ft 7, it slices into your neck. Extremely uncomfortable and feels like it would decapitate me.

2points

Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago

I hit a deer at 65 MPH in my 2019 Subaru Impreza... Wearing a seat belt, air bags and all. The deer flew from my left side to 45 feet away to the right and was split in half... the car was totalled. If you could see the damage, you'd wonder how I walked away. I broke a fingernail... not s**t! Seatbelts and a Subaru.... saved my a*s big time!

1point

alwaysMispelled 2 years ago

They cause injuries but prevent death.

1point

AnxietyRiddenMom 2 years ago

How about helmets on motorcycles? It's not a law where I live and I think it's ludicrous

1point

Chich 2 years ago

They do save lives, but what would I know. I only did 30 years as a first responder which pales in the face of internet ReSeArCh or your uncle bubba. But do as you wish. Sliding down the ashphalt certainly does make a statement.

1point

commie pinkofag 2 years ago

I thought all the people who refused to wear seatbelts were dead. They're breeding new ones?

1point

Arenite 2 years ago

I have breasts. That causes the seatbelt to not sit properly on me. It ends up across my neck. I just figure in an accident it’s going to decapitate me. Hopefully, my family will end up with millions after they sue the manufacturer.

0points

Suzanne Haigh 2 years ago

The problem is the belts are fitted to suit the average male. Being a 5' female, the belts cut across my neck, so I am not sure just how safe they are for me.

0points

Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago

Even if you are wearing a seat belt, an airbag can break your face. Seen a lot of repair surgeries. And if you're short like me and have to sit close to the steering wheel, it's even worse.

0points

Sasy 2 years ago

Seatbelts are law in Australia for everyone

0points

Nikole 2 years ago

Don't get vaxxed. Don't wear a seatbelt. Eat only red meat. Helmets are for suckers. No, you don't need to have a doctor look at that. Everyone sweats when they watch a movie. Guns don't kill people. Trump loves you.

0points

T J R 2 years ago

I was rear-ended when I was 8 months pregnant. The tip of my bottom rib cage, left side, broke off from where the seat belt was. My baby was fine. I don't even want to think about what would've happened had I not been wearing my seat belt.

0points

Jill Bussey 2 years ago

I can't understand why the US appears to have no law against using a mobile (cell) phone whilst driving.

0points

T J R 2 years ago

My State has the Hands Free Law. You can onl make/take calls on your cell phone if it's connected go blue tooth or with a headset. You can't do anything else on your phone if you're driving (or at a stop light or stop sign either).

0points

Jill Bussey 2 years ago

I can't understand why the US has no law against using a mobile phone (cell) whilst driving.

0points

Audra Sisler 2 years ago

Ever since I started driving the rule was, no seat belt? Ok get out or put it on not leaving until you so one of the two! Still a rule to this day with my kids

0points

Night Owl 2 years ago (edited)

Also interesting: the statistic is different for men and for women. Guess for which gender the stats are worse (hint: car safety is required to be tested only on crash test dummies modeled on male bodies)

0points

LeighPig 2 years ago

Apart from your children...rearface for S long as possible!!

0points

LucasRadford 2 years ago

Car manufacturers actually increased the power in an airbag to make it so you had to wear your seatbelt or be injured by the airbag. Airbags don't have to be that powerful

-1point

Frank Ropen 2 years ago

Some people died despite wearing a seat belt, so they are useless. Sone even died only because of wearing a seat belt, so they are dangerous. Seat belt are a trick of Big Car, so sell mire expensive cars. Seat belts take away my FREEDOM

-1point

High Mamii Melo 2 years ago

Unfortunately, some people won’t wear them because while their life may be saved, they could end up paraplegic, lose a limb, have horrific scarring, etc.

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#5

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.

RamsesThePigeon , Lisa Fotios Report

Final score:

266points

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Fintch 2 years ago

And that's the reason time-travel remain a science fiction, unless we figure out, how to break the now-known physics' laws.

82points

#6

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

ohazltn , Juan Encalada Report

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257points

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Richard Graham 2 years ago

Also, statistically speaking, his name would be "Mohammed Lee". ('Mohammed' is the most common first name, and "Lee' is the most common family (last) name.)

166points

#7

Australia has more kangaroos than humans.

Jiren21 , David Clode Report

Final score:

240points

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Ellie McGrath 2 years ago

Those are Wallabies

231points

#8

The tallest giraffe ever measured (George) was 19 feet (5.8m) tall.

The longest crocodile ever measured (Lolong) was 20.25 feet (6.17m) long

So 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.

FlorenceCattleya , MartyWilliams Report

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213points

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Regal Kitten 2 years ago

A 23-foot crocodile is very hard to capture. No kidding!

90points

#9

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.

corvettee01 , Gerald Schömbs Report

Final score:

213points

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dream of delusion 2 years ago (edited)

holy c**p. i has no idea they were THAT old. and yet, now they’re endangered due to our stupid overfishing. beings that have lived that long, now at risk of going extinct. it’s just sad.

112points

keenly_disinterested , Benigno Hoyuela Report

#10

That by almost all important measures, the world is a better place to live today than at any other time in human history.

Final score:

209points

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Wilko Lunenburg 2 years ago

Unless you are an animal or plant.

156points

Munninnu , NASA Robotics Competitions Sheyene Gerardi Report

#11

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.

Final score:

201points

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Joanie 2 years ago

I just can't stand to look at that man.

236points

#12

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

denny31415926 , C Dustin Report

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194points

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Barbara L Bristow 2 years ago

I've seen this one before and it still amazes me. I guess I never thought of a cloud having any weight at all. HHmmmmm

82points

ALittleNightMusing , United Kingdom Government Report

#13

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.

Final score:

183points

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Troy Parr 2 years ago

Those are German planes. Well, someone had to say it...

187points

RamsesThePigeon , Robert Anderson Report

#14

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%.

Final score:

170points

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GlamourGhoul 2 years ago

My uncle, great-uncle and I all share a birthday. I wonder what the stats are for family members having the same birthday are...

55points

#15

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

chelseatys , Mathieu Turle Report

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166points

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Kelli 2 years ago

While being told it’s fair.

118points

#16

I found out at a conference last week that 5 billion people don't have access to safe surgery.
It really shocked me. That's 5 out of every 7 people in the world.

Missing_panda , Piron Guillaume Report

Final score:

165points

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John Whick 2 years ago (edited)

That is so sad, if every person was a day, the people that have access to it would only be weekends, sorry for the weird analogy, that was just how my ADHD brain processed it

88points

#17

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

cOOlio-pasta , Jim Gardner Report

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163points

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dream of delusion 2 years ago

wait, that’s actually really interesting. i want to know more about how it’s able to travel that far and still be potent. also a little bit saddening, seeing as how widespread pollution can get

72points

#18

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.

TnekKralc , Dan Bock Report

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161points

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Fintch 2 years ago

Poor woman... and kids....

199points

#19

America has about 5% of the worlds population but about 25% of the worlds criminals.

Gaarakotq , RODNAE Productions Report

Final score:

159points

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Andy Frobig 2 years ago

Inmates ≠ criminals

255points

#20

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

paul99501 , Duncan Kidd Report

Final score:

158points

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Lux Crow 2 years ago

We need to do better, and stop these wars.(I’m looking at you Putin)

81points

#21

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

stickmanDave , Sophie Louisnard Report

Final score:

148points

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Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago

Omg imperial systen is using nail growth as a kind of measurment now??

186points

#22

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

NantiAboutThat , Michael C Report

Final score:

144points

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ᴇᴅᴇɴ 2 years ago

And only 1.2% can be used as drinking water

77points

pm_me_anythingg_sfw , Miika Silfverberg Report

#23

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

Final score:

135points

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Kim Kermes 2 years ago

In some areas, that's the population of the average back yard.

159points

dudewhatwouldhappen , Joshua Newton Report

#24

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.

Final score:

135points

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Fintch 2 years ago

No thanks ....

203points

#25

Over 1 million earths could fit into the sun.

lymediseasesucks Report

Final score:

135points

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rbajosé 2 years ago

Too hot to cuddle

60points

#26

Size-wise, a particle of dust is halfway between a subatomic particle and the Earth.

anon , Kunj Parekh Report

Final score:

135points

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Richard Campbell 2 years ago

😮

27points

#27

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

Gsurhijrsee , Ian Taylor Report

Final score:

133points

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Bianca Saville 2 years ago

Can we have a source for this 'fact' please

44points

#28

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

PleiadianJedi , engin akyurt Report

Final score:

128points

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Tell that to my fat.....it never leaves..

296points

#29

It takes roughly 170,000 years for photons from the Sun's core to reach the convection zone of the photosphere where it is released out into space. In other words, the Sun light you see is hundreds of thousands of years old.

mattk1017 , Jonathan Borba Report

Final score:

128points

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Fintch 2 years ago

Yeah, every time we are looking up to the sky, we are seeing the past.... how it was hundreds of thousand, million years ago.

47points

TryToHelpPeople , Barbora Dostálová Report

#30

The population of Ireland has not yet recovered half-way from the famine of 150 years ago.

The immediate effects of the famine saw a great many people [perished] from starvation or disease and others emigrate to avoid the same fate. The longer term effects created a breakdown in the social order which forced emigration and a consequent 100 year decline in the population. It's only in the last 50 years that the population has started to grow again.

Final score:

127points

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K O 2 years ago

The famine was a genocide - don't think many people know that

123points

#31

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%.

anon , engin akyurt Report

Final score:

119points

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Nadine 2 years ago

First marriage, 3 years. His 8 years. Our marriage, 25 years and still in love.

164points

#32

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

VoltaicParticle , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

102points

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Pogi Gwapo 2 years ago

Is that 20 minutes walk or drive?

63points

#33

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

SonoftheBread , Jason Leem Report

Final score:

101points

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44f5 Dixit 2 years ago

Considering another fact "there are more star in the universe than the sand grain on beach" i'am not believing this one

67points

patrickswayzemullet Report

#34

80 per cent of 80 year old males or older will have suffered or will face prostate cancer at some point in his life.

Eighty. Percent.

Final score:

91points

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Mora Chilis 2 years ago

Yes, and it is similar for breast cancer. However, there are many very slow growing types of cancer. Most of these people die of old age, not cancer. Misleading.

59points

#35

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

thirdageofmen , Lottie Report

Final score:

73points

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phil bishop 2 years ago

You eat iron for breakfast??

54points

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#36

The Vatican has 5.9 popes per square mile.

idiot900 , Ashwin Vaswani Report

Final score:

37points

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Raven DeathShade 2 years ago

Does it count if they're dead?

20points

#37

If you correctly shuffle a deck of cards, you'll create a configuration that has never existed, and likely never will again. This is because there are 8.1x10^67 possible arrangements for fifty-two cards, and getting through each of them would take longer than the lifespan of the universe.

RamsesThePigeon Report

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34points

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dream of delusion 2 years ago

now i’m gonna feel extra special whenever i shuffle a deck :D

19points

#38

1) The biggest air force in the world is the United States Air Force. The second biggest is the United States Navy and Army combined.

2) It is generally accepted that the Air craft carrier is the most valuable and influential piece of war machinery because it allows you to wage a war from anywhere without putting civilians at risk.
As of 2016 the USA had 14 the next closest country had 2.

k1net1c5 Report

Final score:

34points

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J. F. 2 years ago (edited)

Aircraft carriers are also the most valuable asset for fast emergency aid after natural disasters - they contain a full hospital, water cleaning facilities and amphibian landing crafts + pioneering machinery to clear airports for heavier cargo planes like C-130, C-160 or C-17 full of supplies

31points

#39

There are more barrels of bourbon in Kentucky than people.

Nealburt Report

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33points

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Jules 2 years ago

Yay

11points

#40

50% of our living US presidents have been accused of sexual harassment.

XiZus Report

Final score:

33points

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i'm in therapy for a reason 2 years ago

oh my god what the f.u.c.k is wrong with America?

39points

#41

There are more employees at Walt Disney World (approx. 75,000) than coal miners in the United States (approx. 50,000).

jwilcoxwilcox Report

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32points

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Vesna 2 years ago

Strange choice of comparison

34points

#42

Morbidly obese people cost their insurers significantly less than do fit people. The reason being that even though morbid obesity causes such a multitude of health problems, people die at such a relatively young age that they don’t have the chance to run up such a high tab.

OxfordBombers Report

Final score:

31points

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Brandi Delph 2 years ago

Hmmm. . . . I wonder if that's why some insurance companies won't cover weight loss surgery

24points

#43

For a while, we were all a single cell. Now we have about 37 trillion of them.

lihamt Report

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30points

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Regal Kitten 2 years ago (edited)

Humans are so much easier to get along with when they only have one cell...

34points

#44

Alaska takes up about 21% of the USA's total land area.

dancing_genitals Report

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29points

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Regal Kitten 2 years ago

And, according to Texans, the remaining 80% is Texas.

28points

#45

If none of Wayne Gretzky's goals counted, his assists would still make him the all-time leading scorer in the NHL.

grumpy_meat Report

Final score:

28points

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Gul Dukat 2 years ago

That's why you always tried to take him out in "NHL' 93" (as seen in "Swingers").

4points

actuallyfullydomein Report

#46

In 110 years let’s say, every single person who is alive now will be dead. All of the big superstars and actors and whoever will be completely different people we don’t know. I was stoned out of my mind last night and I was thinking about that and it absolutely blew my f’ing mind.

Final score:

28points

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dream of delusion 2 years ago

“i was stoned out of my mind” ah, the higher plane of shower thoughts

39points

#47

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

deputy_doo_doo , Diego González Report

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27points

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phil bishop 2 years ago

Died??

49points

#48

If you're a man over 7 feet tall, there's a 17% chance you'll be in the NBA.

That's roughly 1 in 6.

BoringPersonAMA Report

Final score:

27points

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Fintch 2 years ago

Only in USA.

22points

#49

52% of white women voted Trump over Hillary.

flutterfly28 Report

Final score:

27points

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LC Greenwood 2 years ago

NOT ME!!

49points

#50

Black men have a 1/3 chance of being incarcerated at some point in their life time in the US

anon Report

Final score:

27points

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John Whick 2 years ago

You know something is bad when it is 50% more likely for black people to be innocent, and there are still people who say that Black Lives Matter is dumb and unneeded

28points

mrwhibbley , ThisisEngineering RAEng Report

#51

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

Final score:

27points

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Funhog 2 years ago

Well, since there aren’t too many people with more than 2 arms (/s), the average number of arms will always be less than 2.

40points

#52

Most people have fewer friends than their friends have, on average.

ASpiralKnight Report

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24points

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just a random panda 2 years ago

what. how. my brain is broken

41points

#53

There are more planes in the oceans than there are submarines in the sky.

haileyscomet1066 Report

Final score:

24points

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Artsy Bookworm 2 years ago

Like there are more birds in the sea than fish in the sky 🤔

25points

#54

More planes were shot down during World War II than there are registered aircraft in the world today.

anon Report

Final score:

22points

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burncreek 2 years ago

That leads to the fact that there are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

28points

#55

The mass of all viruses in the ocean easily surpasses the mass of all living Elephants.

zikaBr Report

Final score:

21points

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Kelli 2 years ago

They aren’t being wiped out by trophy hunters.

16points

#56

Women on OKCupid only consider the top 7% of men to be above average in attractiveness, based on their pictures alone. They consider only the top 19% to be average or better. The biggest group in the stats was "moderately unattractive" with 31%. "Unattractive" starts at the 58% percentile, with 27% of men being "very unattractive."

Women recorded no men as "very attractive."

Zahn1138 Report

Final score:

20points

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Troux 2 years ago

Women find 0% of this claim provides a source.

38points

#57

More Americans than Canadians live north of Canada's southernmost point.

Doctor_Spicy Report

Final score:

18points

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Ninnuam Solpajue 2 years ago

Canadians are americans too, you know? I'm chilean and i'm american too

2points

#58

Cosmetic surgery - South Korea:

South Korean women, the most obsessed with cosmetic surgery, are among the world's women. Statistics show that one out of five women in South Korea has at least one cosmetic surgery, four times higher than women in the United States. As a result, South Korea's cosmetic surgeons have gained a reputation for driving around 7.5 million people to Seoul, the capital of South Korea, for cosmetic surgery.

meniptv Report

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15points

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Ed Brandon 2 years ago

South Korean women are among the world's women? Gosh.

64points

#59

One of the most dangerous occupations in the United States is President.

18% of Presidents have died while in office, half of those by assassination.

anon Report

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15points

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Vesna 2 years ago

1. Logging workers Fatal injury rate: 111 per 100,000 workers Total deaths (2018): 56 Salary: $41,230 Most common fatal accidents: Contact with objects and equipment The most dangerous job in America is logging. Logging workers had a fatal accident rate that was 33 times the average job nationwide. Logging workers harvest forests to provide the raw material for goods such as wood, paper, and cardboard, in addition to other industrial products. These workers spend almost all of their time outside in forests and other isolated areas.

17points

#60

Despite making up a little less than 2% of the population, 44% of the billionaires in the US are Jewish.

rlrhino7 Report

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15points

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Bored Retsuko 2 years ago

The reason for this is, VERY simply put, that Jewish people were excluded from (mostly Christian) society in many European countries (long before WWII) in that they weren't allowed to do lots of professions. Jobs related to money (banking) were allowed though as Christians didn't want to do them. So these were the obvious choice for many Jews. Please keep this in mind next time someone uses the hideous "greedy / money obsessed Jew" stereotype.

53points

#61

There are more people living in Dallas/Fort Worth than the entire state of Louisiana.

mirdster Report

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14points

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Casanova 2 years ago

Dallas/Fort worth Texas for anyone who didn't know

6points

#62

IQ correlates more strongly with income than socioeconomic background.

vcxnuedc8j Report

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13points

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Zwiebel Suppe 2 years ago

I read somewhere (yeah, that sounds reliable, I know) that poverty can make your IQ drop by several points. Probably because constant fear and anxiety kind of occupy your mind enough.

15points

#63

New Jersey hasn’t had a male Lt. Governor since 1757.

beaverteeth92 Report

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12points

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Joe Reaves 2 years ago

Mostly because between independence and 2001 they didn't *have* a Lt Governor.

36points

#64

If you were to take the smallest cylinder of air completely surrounding the Eiffel Tower, the air itself would have more mass than the rest of the Tower.

Edit: Due to buoyant forces, it wouldn't exactly weigh more on Earth. However, it still has more mass. Also clarified the size of the cylinder.

GruntingCrunchy Report

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10points

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Stephen Smith 2 years ago

You could say the same about a football or a balloon :/

0points

#65

This is a bit technical, but let's say a test is given to detect HIV in a sample where 1% of the population has HIV. Let's say that 90% of those that got a positive result actually had HIV and 90% of those that got a negative result didn't have it. The cool part is that, with these statistics, if you took the test and were given a positive result, you would only have an 8.33% chance of actually having HIV! I'd explain the math but this is already long enough. This probably isn't that interesting to most but learning this in statistics blew my mind.

Roshkp Report

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9points

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Laugh or not 2 years ago

The coolest part with statistics is that you can use them without any relationship with reality. If you have a positive test to HIV, you most probably have HIV. Those tests have become pretty reliable.

18points