Remembering all the math I did in high school, I can only say that looking at numbers can be confusing. Or just boring. But sometimes, they can offer you a better understanding of the world than a news show. And in a much more entertaining fashion, too.
In October, Redditor u/alexbbtkd asked other platform users, “What’s a crazy statistic?” and has received plenty of answers. We’ve combed through all of them and picked out the most surprising ones just to broaden your horizons. So put on your smarty pants, get a notebook, and enjoy!
#1
That the Catholic Church hid a (now self) reported 8.4 child rapes per day for over 71 years.
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#2
That there are A LOT more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people.
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#3
The average person is a 28 year old Chinese man
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#4
40% of homeless are employed.
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#5
The top 10% of drinkers account 60% of all alcohol consumed in the US. And they drink the equivalent of 74 drinks per week.
So the entire alcoholic beverages industry is kept alive by severe alcoholics.
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#6
One third of adults still sleep with a comfort object
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#7
There is more actual lemon in Lemon Pledge cleaner than there is in Country Time lemonade
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#8
More first responders and survivors have now died due to 9/11 related illnesses than the number lost at Ground Zero on the day of the attack. The number will continue to rise because of the huge amount of health problems caused by the dust and smoke that everyone in the surrounding areas inhaled when/after the towers fell.
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#9
The U.S government has ‘misplaced’ six thermonuclear warheads. They were either lost or stolen in transit and at this juncture, one of the largest nuclear superpowers in the world has no idea where they are.
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#10
40% of cops are domestic abusers
#11
86% of British people live within 8 miles from where they were born.
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#12
Sharks predate trees by 100 million years…
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#13
There are more combinations in a 52 deck of cards than stars in the known universe.
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#14
39% of the world’s population is overweight and that number is only getting “bigger”
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#15
If you were born in 1923 in the Soviet Union as a male, you would have an 80% chance of dying in world war II.
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#16
In the US, you are more likely to be killed by a cow than you are to be killed by a coyote.
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#17
That you can fit all the planets in our solar system between the Earth and the Moon and still have some room spare.
Mind blown
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#18
We are closer in time to the birth of Cleopatra than she was to the construction of the Great Pyramid
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#19
According to the FBI, there are currently more than 25 active serial killers in the US
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#20
The United States “land of the free” incarcerates more citizens per capita than any other country: US: 629 inmates per 100,000 citizens
Compared to other countries: Cuba: 510, Brazil: 381, Russia: 326, China: About 250, Mexico: 169, UK: 131, France: 100
#21
Broccoli has more protein per calorie than a steak.
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#22
1 out of 25 people are sociopaths. No automatic sense of empathy.
#23
There are approximately 78,000,000,000,000 000,000 atoms in a grain of sand.
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#24
60% of people with Bipolar disorder are unemployed
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#25
Men are about 7 times more as successful at suicide than women.
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#26
Human life expectancy has increased more rapidly in the past 50 years than in the past 200,000 years.
#27
20% of produce and fruit in the usa is never sold and is left to rot
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