“What’s Your Favorite True Statistic That Makes People Do A Double Take When They Hear It?” (45 Answers)

Yes, we ALL know sharks are older than trees. Because this fact shows up here at least once a week!

And we are bringing them to the verge of extinction. Damn us.

And we know all this how?

I‘ve read something a short time ago about the thing with sharks and trees not being exactly true, only tecnically or whatever. But I can‘t remember what it was exactly.

That's cause the last pole shift happened 12,000 years ago

The US education system is really what we should focus on improving. If we make kids smarter, they’ll be smart enough to vote for the right people!

So that is how orange guy won.

As a book worm this makes me sad. Everyone should be able to experience the joy of reading. Which is why I volunteer helping adults learn to read. Even if they never read for pleasure they NEED to be able to understand things like tax forms, prescription instructions, bank info, etc.

Schools need to be able to hold kids back so they can retake the classes, take the time necessary to obtain the skills and information taught to them in their current grade.

The top 5 illiterate states (NM, CA, TX, MS, LA) have an average illiteracy rate of 27% and their population accounts for 25% of the U.S. population. Currently, the national illiteracy rate is around 21%. 54% of adults have literacy of below 6th grade.

Great great great great grandpa shark, doo doo doo.....

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How do they determine the age of a shark?

Ok... so you know how some insects only live a day? Well ya also know how ppl cannsleep an entire day due to being sick, catching up on sleep, depression, etc? To that fly we would seem like a "landmark" a hill, mountain, boulder. I wonder if it's the same for us? Like something in our environment that doesn't appear to move like a tree, hill, etc actually would if we lived long enough to be able to tell.

Also most are blind. Small parasitic fish attach to their eyes rendering them blind, however because there isnt light at the depths they live their lives are unaffected.

Great. Now someone will decide to hunt and harvest them for food.

Crucially, hippos come onto land to graze at night. This is where most of the fatal encounters occur. Imagine sharks sprouting legs and lungs and hunting in the streets at night.

Cows also kill more people than sharks.

But do hippos have a higher kill count than vending machines?

Hippos don't live anywhere near me; sharks do. If hippos move to New England, I will adjust my fears.

Well I mean they are hungry hungry

Dinos origin was about 249 million years ago and ended 66 mya; Stegos came along about 156 mya and died out about 144 mya. There were at least 15 species. T-Rex is dated from 83.6 to 66 mya. So the closest they could have been to each other is about 60.4 my. Which means the claim is not quite accurate. But what's a few million years? I guess we need to say "You are about the same time away from..." Still pretty surprising. It's kind of natural to think of dinos all living at the same time I guess.