- lava lamps helping with internet encryption at cloudfare
- there are numbers without names because infinity
- a new zealand entomologist proposed shifting clocks back two hours to have more daylight after work for bug hunting, to catch bugs
- The amount of rodent and bug particles allowed by the FDA to be in your cereal is not zero. If it was zero we wouldn't have cereal.
- The average human has less than two arms.
- Survey of Fortune 500 executives found that 93% agree the golf reflects life. 86% admit to cheating at golf.
- After oil, the world's 2nd most traded commodity is coffee.
- Let's say you got a job the very day they laid the first corner stone for the Great Pyramid in Giza. It's a good job, it pays $1,200/hr. You've worked it ever since, 40 hours a week, and saved every penny. Never spent any of it. You still wouldn't have as much money as Elon. Sounds incredible, right? Here's the incredible part. The math is off, by a factor of 10. If the job paid $12,000/hr, you still wouldn't have as much money as Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, or a half dozen other people.
- If you made $295,000 every single day since the birth of Christ, you still wouldn't be worth what Elon Musk is.
- If dinosaurs are really just early birds then the asteroid that wiped them out holds the record for most birds killed with one stone
- 3 people are killed by sharks per year, 3 million sharks are killed by people per year
- Chopping wood for an hour results in a 48% increase in testosterone in men.
- In 2016, the population of Ireland reached 6.5 million (both ROI and Northern Ireland). Before The Great Hunger (you may know it as the potato famine) the population was 9 million.
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy. (~ 3 Trillion)
- Miscarriages are going up 1% each year and sperm count of men have gone down 50% since 1970 (US)
- That we are chronologically closer in time to the T-Rex than the T-Rex was to the Stegosaurus. We are about 66 million years after the trex, but the stegosaurus was about 85 million years before the trex, 20 million years longer. Dinosaurs were around for a VERY long time.
- The most obese state in the country in 1990 (Mississippi, 15%) was still far skinnier than the least obese state in the country in 2020 (Colorado, 24%)
- The birthday 'paradox', the fact if you have 23 random people there is a 50% change 2 have the same birthday
- That the remains found in Machu Picchu are 80% female.
- 2%, 20%. Motorcycles are 2% of all vehicles
. Motorcycles account for 20% of all road fatalities.
- Only 3% of foster kids will ever obtain a college degree at any point in their life
- 7 out of 10 girls who age out of the foster care system will become pregnant before the age of 21
- 40% of men in prison were foster kids at some point in their lives
- 34 percent of adults and 75 percent of children sleep with a stuffed animal or a blanket, or other sentimental object as their comfort object.
- A full 25% of crimes in Detroit happens at gas stations after 10pm
- A full 6 percent of Americans reckon they could beat a grizzly bear in unarmed combat.
- 18% of all boating accidents are caused by people trying to pee over the side.
- There are more ants alive today than there have been humans alive ever.
- Of the 30 fastest 100 meter sprint times, 21 were run by athletes who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. The other 9 were Usain Bolt.
- National Geographic found in 2018 that only 9% of all plastic worldwide gets recycled. A study in the US by the Environmental Protection Agency found only 8.4% of US waste was recycled. Biffa Waste Services Ltd was caught sending over 1,000 tonnes of private home waste to India labelled as paper so you pay less per container, for profit. Basically, recycling is a depressing joke.
- The average drunk driver drives under the influence more than 80 times before they get caught.
- Sharks have existed for longer than the rings of Saturn (450 million years vs. Around 100 million) and predate trees.
- Dragonflies have a 95% hunt success rate. Making them the most effective hunters in the world.
- The average age of retirement in the US is 62. 53% of retirements aren't voluntary.
- In 2020, overdose with a synthetic opioid (primarily fentanyl) became the LEADING cause of death in all Americans ages 18 to 45. Motor vehicle accidents were the former leading cause for this age group.
- 20% of the mammal species on our planet are different types of bats. There's about 5000 species of mammals, and about 1000 of them are varieties of our little winged buddies.
- Less than 10% of Americans do not wear seatbelts and account for 51% of car related fatalities.
- That belly button bacteria study was wild. 60 belly buttons sampled. 2368 different species of bacteria found. The study indicated that 1458 of them may be new to science. One had a rare bacteria found in Japanese soil and they had never been to Japan. Two had rare bacteria that thrived on ice caps and thermal vents. Not a single bacteria was common to all buttons.
- the statue of liberty wears a size 879 sandal
- 2/3 of the Australian population will develop skin cancer at some point of their lives.
- When tested by another agency, TSA failed to detect weapons, bombs, and other destructive materials 95% of the time. On top of that, they were told "today is the day we are going to be tested"
- At least 50% of adults in the US are likely experiencing symptoms of lead exposure from their childhood. Which includes loss of IQ, increased phobias, addiction issues, and neuroticism. Makes the current state of things make a lot more sense
- Continents move at the same rate that fingernails grow.
- Rabies has a 99% mortality rate. You can go a year with it, no signs or anything, but when you start showing symptoms you're dead in a few hours.
- 60% of "gun violence" are suicides (source: FBI stats)
- 70% of the german population believe that their ancestors during WW2 helped jewish escapees or didn't support/partake in the actions performed by the nazis.
- Cigarette butts make up ~38% of all litter collected, and can take up to 10 years to decompose.
- Genghis Khan killed so many people that he cooled the earth by a bit
- the French author Georges Perec wrote an entire novel without using the letter E. Gilbert Adair translated it into English without using the letter E. Perec wrote a follow up novel, Les revenentes, in which E is the only vowel used.
- There are 12 flowers on an oreo
- The #1 buyer of explosives in the world is the US military. #2 is Disney
- Nectar can ferment in hot weather, and bees that consume this can effectively get drunk. "Drunk" bees aren't allowed back in the hive
- Mozart wrote the "Night Queen" aria so his sister-in-law could show off. The piece is so good that it is included in a collection of music from Earth on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- And he wrote Come scoglio because he hated the singer who was going to perform it and knew the note changes in it would make her head "bob like a chicken."
- Your intestines “know” how get back in the right place. When doing abdominal surgery and the intestines need to be moved or rearranged, the doctor will just stuff them back in. They will then wriggle back into place. Yucky. And cool
- Ants take 250 power naps a day
- Your eyes have a different immune system than the rest of your body. If they knew about each other, your eyes would basically start dissolving, as your immune system attacks your own eyes. Fear not, your brain won’t let that happen.
- You will die if you consume the liver of a polar bear. That much vitamin A is too much for humans to handle.
- Snails can feel their shells. So if you step on one they feel the entire thing
- A human body can produce enough carbon upon cremation to make 200 pencils. You can be your own souvenir at your funeral.
- That when the Milky Way and Andromeda collide, even though the both have hundreds of billions of stars, the likelihood of any 2 stars colliding is astronomically low. Everything is unimaginably far apart.
- If you smell fish and no ones cooking, its an electrical fire.
- A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus
- Any drink under 10% ABV was considered a soft drink until 2011 in Russia
- Before the invention of lightbulb, people slept an average of about 10 hours every night. They also often didn't sleep through the whole night. A lot of cultures had "first sleep" and "second sleep" with a wake up time in the middle to stoke the fire, have a snack, talk, etc
- Rhinos have only 5% body fat, and that fat I'd stored on the bottom of their hooves which makes them effectively silent even at full sprint.
- Oxford University was founded before the Aztec Empire. When Oxford first started they didn't teach calculus, because it hadn't been invented yet.
- The eruption of Mount Krakatoa was the loudest sound ever recorded. It was heard over 3,000 miles away. Imagine an explosion so big in New York that Los Angeles hears it. It produced seismic ripples through the earth that were picked up on devices, and showed that the ripples of the explosion circumnavigated the earth several times. The decibels were so high at the point of the explosion that just the sound was lethal within a few miles and is a decibel level that reliquifies solidified concrete.
- Giraffes have the same amount of vertebrae as humans
- The treadmill was actually a torture device in jails.
- Pregnant women are not allowed to work in the area of the factory where Pringles recieve the flavouring 'spray'.
- Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that you have put them in an order that has never been seen in the history of the universe.
- Maine has more coast line than California. Maine is also the closest part of the US to Africa.
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