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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

#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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Ian Milne 2 years ago

Humans are animals

24points

pink_panda 2 years ago

Actually, it's a pretty great time for corn and soy to be alive. They're propagated in insane quantities, which from an evolutionary perspective means success. Check out Michael Pollan's the Botany of Desire for more of this perspective. But yeah, for the vast majority of species these are basically the end times.

16points

Kines Tezja 2 years ago

It depends, I don't think many people in The Middle Ages cared about rescuing small abandoned kittens or dogs.

9points

JuniorCJ82 2 years ago

or a woman

4points

Radiant Siren 2 years ago

or a pregnant female. Murder is their leading cause of death

2points

I don't like avocado 2 years ago

I sooooo wish this acknowledged how very little some parts of the world changed. Sure, they changed but very very little. The middle east is terrifying.... minorities in some parts of the world can't live freely.

2points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 2 years ago

Or BIPOC

2points

SoloDadof3 2 years ago

They have laws most places against some plants.

2points

Nadia Young 2 years ago

Perfect! The "humans" are making their own life much worse

1point

Fox 2 years ago

True that

1point

SS 2 years ago

Or an American who needs medical care...

0points

Robyn Denton 2 years ago

Or live in Ukraine...

0points

Deborah 2 years ago

Ermm...

0points

Alex S 2 years ago

Or a person living on low lying Pacific islands like Kiribati

0points

Robyn Bowns 2 years ago

Or the planet itself 😭😭😭😭

0points

Scott Crowell 2 years ago

Or you make a comment of the internet

0points

Everyone calm down 2 years ago

…..dry your eyes swampy.

-2points

Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

It is true, when you look at the big picture, but even though it is better, it is still at great risk of becoming way way worse if we are not vigilantly attentive to those risks and do our utmost to mitigate them.

11points

Thomas Ewing 2 years ago

The greed factor in human nature allows a blind eye to be turned to any bad news. "As long as it doesn't hurt me, I'll keep doing it". Hence inflation and increasingly lower standards for the 98% non-elites.

0points

Vuun 2 years ago

Surprisingly unpopular fact. Particularly when it comes to the decrease in wars, and violent deaths in general, people will just flat out refuse to believe it. There are also people that say such information should not be spread because apparently people will stop trying to Improve.

11points

Ash 2 years ago

Yes! When really, we need to have some hope that our efforts can pay off so that we'll feel motivated to keep making those efforts rather than just giving up in despair!

3points

Mora Chilis 2 years ago

This is very true. Our standard of living is much greater than even the most powerful people in the past. Heat, Water, Lights availability of food, medical care.

8points

Amanda 2 years ago

"Medical care? What's that?" -- my American self

-1point

Karin L 2 years ago

What are these "almost all important measures", I would like to know. What is important differs from person to person.

8points

lapis lazuli 2 years ago

i think they mean like plagues and stuff

12points

Chich 2 years ago

While you can find instances of each, you are not likey to die from some simple disease, starvation, the next city over raiding yours, bad/adulterated food or tainted water. Majority have food & shelter etc. However, it seems the more we have the more we whine about what we don't yet have.

3points

LeeAnne B 2 years ago

I was just wondering the same thing!

1point

Justme 2 years ago

Unless you’re a glacier

6points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 2 years ago

Excellent point. I've been sliding on thin ice for ages now!

1point

Ludwig Michiel 2 years ago

This statement is a very short summary of "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling, one of the most interesting books I have read. The motivation for the author for this book was that if we fail to see what has improved in recent human history, we will also fail to identify the solutions for the immense challenges that lay ahead for humanity.

4points

Vuun 2 years ago

Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of our Nature" is another one.

2points

Ash 2 years ago

Here's a fantastic article on the subject, with some great charts: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/23/14062168/history-global-conditions-charts-life-span-poverty

2points

Thomas Ewing 2 years ago

There are still too many of us--the Earth's human population has doubled in the last 50 years. Very unsustainable.

1point

Seonag Udell 2 years ago

I'd still rather live in the 80s

1point

Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 2 years ago

Sadly, I'm quite confident that as a species, we've reached our pinnacle. Although, I don't expect I'll live to see the s**t-show.

1point

J F 2 years ago

unless you are in a ukraine village near russia :(

1point

commie pinkofag 2 years ago

Thanks. I can use that statement to explain "damning with faint praise" to non-native speakers of English.

1point

v 2 years ago

Imagine how much better it would be if we had the technologies we currently have and halfway attempted to limit the global population to about 4 or 5 billion.

1point

Kayjunmoon 2 years ago

Wildlife, land destruction.

1point

Marnie 2 years ago

I don't believe this. Considering how many women and children are living in homes where they are beaten, neglected, abused, where women are treated like sex-slaves with no autonomy. Treating women and children this way is not natural, normal, or traditional. Also, there are more slaves in this moment than all the African American slaves in the US combined.

0points

Cass Malone 2 years ago

What are these important measures? Really it depends on how you look at it.

0points

Kit The Dudess 2 years ago

I beg to differ.

0points

Patrick Whittington 2 years ago

Will you please tell this to the religious nuts at my job that keep rambling about how horrible everything is, everythings going downhill, and the apocalypse is happening tomorrow.

0points

Billy Allen 2 years ago

Unless you're a school kid or in church or the store.

0points

LaToya Mack 2 years ago

Especially if you’re black. The most favorable tone Eva

0points

Beata Santa 2 years ago

imagine the lockdowns without internet or smartphones....yikes!!!!!

0points

Castles 2 years ago

I don’t think I believe this hmmm

0points

Meg Folsom 2 years ago

As you post this on the internet. Good gracious.

0points

Roz!!! 2 years ago

Unless you are broke

0points

Eleanor Green 2 years ago

Ooff, yikes.

0points

LeiLah 2 years ago

By any measure? Air quality. Water quality. Pollution level. Gun deaths by mass shooters in schools. Online bullying. So many more that makes that wrong.

0points

Vuun 2 years ago

Read again and pay special attention to the word 'almost'.

0points

d bradley 2 years ago

unless you listen to the mainstream media

0points

Anna Litical 2 years ago

Says who?

0points

Richard Black 2 years ago

This is true. Unless you live in St. Louis?

0points

44f5 Dixit 2 years ago

Does these measures include pollution, poverty, decrease life expectancy.....etc etc etc

0points

Ed Brandon 2 years ago

Yes. It's only really since the 2008 crash that live quality is going down again versus gradual constant improvements since the industrial revolution 300yrs ago.

11points

RoseTheMad 2 years ago

I refuse to believe this.

-1point

Tx jac 2 years ago

This one I find hard to believe ...I guess its how you define "better".

-1point

Mozzarella 2 years ago

Oh really? If this is the best time, the rest must have been a piece of hell

-1point

Meme Lord 2 years ago

It was

6points

Logan Garwacki 2 years ago

There was also the time when you were allowed to kill someone intent on killing you.

-2points

Thomas Ewing 2 years ago

You still can, if the judge agrees with you.

0points

jpaul 2 years ago

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Mary Rogers 2 years ago

I am sure that made sense in your head, lol.

4points

Kelli 2 years ago

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Hänna 2 years ago

We talking about the world, not just the u.s.a

23points

Petra Moon 2 years ago

Modern medicine is free in most countries.

1point

Veronica Popescu 2 years ago

You forgot the pollution..

1point

Syringa Wessels 2 years ago

facts

0points

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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.

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#61

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

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Casanova 2 years ago

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

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#62

IQ correlates more strongly with income than socioeconomic background.

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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.

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#63

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

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Joe Reaves 2 years ago

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

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#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.

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Stephen Smith 2 years ago

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

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#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.

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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.

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