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30 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything (New Answers)
Ah, statistics. In high school, that was one of the most dreaded classes everyone tried hard to avoid. Despite how useful the course was, it just didn’t appeal to our picky teenage taste. Thankfully, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to really appreciate statistics for how much they teach us about our world. Clearly, I’m not alone either.
Earlier this week, Reddit user Foundation_james reached out asking for the most interesting statistics people know, and the post received thousands of responses. We’ve gathered some of the most fascinating statistics people shared, so you can read them below and add them to your list of go-to fun facts. Be sure to upvote all of your favorite stats, and then if you’re looking to learn even more from Bored Panda, we recommend checking out this piece next.
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#1
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.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Chuck Norris would be the fastest but we do not have the technology to record the speeds he runs at.
Solidhog 3 years ago
Chuck Norris would not run the fastest! He would simply lift his feet and the earth would move quickly underneath for him.
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UncleRussian 3 years ago
The other athletes: "Man running is hard, lemme take some drugs to help me" Usain Bolt: "I AM THE DRUG!!"
Wang Zhuang 3 years ago
Chuck Norris is so fast, I heard when he goes to bed at night, he can turn off the light and be under his blanket before the room gets dark
Faith Love-robertson 3 years ago (edited)
I don't believe that Donovan Bailey has ever tested positive for banned substances. He and Bolt are the only 2 athletes that have not tested positive that have set records for the 100, since 1984. O
Andrea Barbieri 3 years ago
also marcell jacobs has never tested positive, i believe this statistic has a pretty poor source
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The field of statistics is the science of learning from data, and without an understanding of it, we would have a very difficult time making decisions. When preparing for emergencies, for example, we can assess the risks based on statistics. How often do hurricanes occur in this area? How likely is one to occur within the next week? When a hurricane does hit, how devastating is it expected to be? The National Hurricane Center uses various statistical models "based on historical relationships between hurricane-specific information, such as the location and time of year, and the behavior of historical hurricanes" to predict future storms. These stats are incredibly important in keeping citizens safe and minimizing destruction from hurricanes.
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#2
There have been 288 mass shootings at schools since 2009 in the USA. The country with the next highest amount has………….. 8. To be clear they have 2.7% of the mass shootings at school that we do.
Which does not count Pulse in Orlando, the Vegas Strip shooting, etc.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
True. I have not heard of any of these people who supposedly always carry a gun take down a shooter. I have heard of people fatally shooting others over neighbour disputes because "I fElT tHrEaTeNeD" when only one person had a gun on them. That incident over a birthday party still disturbs me.
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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
And hundreds more will occur if they don't tighten their gun laws. First step make any automatic and semi automatic guns illegal, second have a gun buy back program, thirdly have laws where you can't carry weapons on you and have to be locked up. Have tougher screening rules on who can own a weapon and lastly have better healthcare so people can access mental health services easier. That's just the start. It can be and has been done. No excuses.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Some idiots are downvoting you for talking sense about guns, I have given you an upvote.
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Reirei 3 years ago
I saw a video recently of a, I think it was a 13 year old, who went undercover. He tried and failed to buy lottery tickets, scratchcards, cigarettes, and booze, then he tried to buy a rifle and succeeded. Shows the state of things when kids can't buy a scratchcard but can buy a lethal weapon.
Tamra 3 years ago
This bears repeating. More CHILDREN have been shot in the US this year than f*****g police officers! Disgusting!
Load More Replies... El Dee 3 years ago
Saw Andy Murray on TV (the tennis guy) He survived Scotland's only mass shooting, also only school shooting, when he was 8 years old (Dunblane) He said - how do they expect things to get better by constantly doing the same thing again - ie more guns. He also commented on how strange 'active shooter drills' were and how weird it was that they are normalised..
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
There have been more gun deaths in American schools in the last 16 years than there have been in European schools since 1903. (Europe has more than double the population.) 'Guns don't kill people. People kill people.' Yes, but it's a great deal easier to kill people if you have easy access to guns.
Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
Our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has just put forth a bill that will put an end to anymore handguns in Canada. No sale, transfer, import. We already had a ban on assault type rifles after a mass shooting at a women's university a number of decades ago. The comedian, Eddie Izzard made a brilliant point years ago to the argument of "Guns don't kill people. People kill people" the bracket on this is mine. He said "Well, that's very true. But if you have a gun (assault rifle) in your hands, it helps". Gun nuts think it's OK to have to basically turn schools into the equivalent of the Green Zone in Baghdad. Don't sell them. There is no need to form a controlled militia to defend the US. The British are not coming.
Nick Kingston 3 years ago
The British don’t have guns either so your gun toting idiots would be safe anyway
Load More Replies... Leeds Lass 3 years ago
I read yesterday that since 1999, over 310,000 children have been in schools whilst shootings were carried out - to say this is shocking is the understatement of the century!
Drea Benoit 3 years ago
Parts of the US are so deep into gun culture it’s basically part of their religion. In fact, I’m positive this would be the claim they make if any restrictions began to happen. It’s really difficult when the politicians in those areas are all pro-gun, too. That really only leaves federal intervention and they just keep kicking it back to the states to handle. I lived in one of these states once. I remember during a dental procedure, my dentist, who was also a high-up in the church, talked to the tech non-stop about this new Glock he just bought. Average folks would go shopping armed to the teeth for some ridiculous reason. Those open carry guns are legally required to be unloaded, but I don’t trust that for a second. Anyway, guns are so ingrained in these people’s lives that many are willing to kill to keep it that way. I think we should be more focused on purchase restrictions and ammo regulations. I believe that would drastically decrease the preventable deaths and shooting incidents
#3
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.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
I think that's supposed to be better for your shoulders if you're a side sleeper!
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Paul Ellis 3 years ago
Since my divorce this year I have had NOTHING to hug (although my good and faithful rescue dog sleeps soundly at the foot of my bed. Without him I would surely be [unalived- the new go-to euphemism]
Furmama0501 3 years ago
When I am having a really hard time I still snuggle my cabbage patch doll. She has never let me down in 38 years.
Statistics also play a huge role in political campaigns. We can predict the outcome of elections by using data about an area from past elections and by polling individuals during a campaign to see where they are leaning. Politicians running for office use this data to decide where to focus their energy as well. If a county has voted Republican in every presidential election for the past 20 years, they are likely to vote the same way in the future, regardless of how many rallies are held there.
Statistics have also been incredibly important to governments in combating the Covid-19 pandemic. Decisions about lockdowns, restrictions, mask mandates and vaccine requirements have all been made based on illness and death rates over time. It would have been very difficult for governments to determine a course of action in fighting Covid without proof of how it’s spreading and where.
#4
Despite making up less than 4% of the population, Americans produce over 20% of the garbage in the world.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Prior to 8 November 2016, we only produced 4% of the garbage in the world.
Winter 3 years ago
This is BS. Corporations produce this garbage on a global scale. Americans consume the products they produce...but so does every other country in the world. Urbanites across the globe do especially, because they cannot produce their own food. This is another one of those shitty statistics that sluff the blame onto one group, and away from where it really belongs: the corporations. Coca cola. Proctor and Gamble. Nestle. And the rest.
Jiminy 3 years ago
Produces as in "made in factories and then shipped to Europe and the US"? Or produces as in "gets swamped by all the recycling trash from the first world"? Or produces as in "actually uses and dumps themselves"?
Load More Replies... Octavia Hansen 3 years ago
Considering BIG BUSINESS creates garbage on a MASSIVE scale, this is a bogus statistic.
#5
Less than 10% of Americans do not wear seatbelts and account for 51% of car related fatalities.
Wear your seatbelt. Ignore your friend who told you "My buddy's cousin would've died if he was wearing his seatbelt!"
Xottel 3 years ago
"The seatbelt surprisingly took more lives than it saved. It is irrational and foremost irresponsible to ever wear [a seatbelt]. Also, striking your testicles with a sledgehammer improves eyesight." - Charles Darwin
Tom Susala 3 years ago
An Illinois State Trooper once told me, " at the scene of an accident, I never un-belted a dead person!"
LH25 3 years ago
A cop friend of ours says the same thing. He says that yes, there may be a rare time where someone dies trapped by their seat belt. But it's MUCH more likely to save you.
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Cath Homer 3 years ago
If Diana, Princess of Wales had been wearing her searbelt she would have survived the crash that killed her
Paul Davis 3 years ago
I grew up with people constantly telling ludicrous stories of people surviving accidents "because they were thrown out of the car". Which, to confuse things, actually can happen but it is a very rare and completely unpredictable outcome. The odds are very, very much against that saving you and much more heavily weighted toward certainly killing you. Like why instead of being suspended snugly inside the cage of a car you would feel safer going through a windshield onto pavement at 70 mph baffles me.
Kusotare 3 years ago
Yep. A family friend was "thrown clear" in a rollover accident. Turns out it wasn't quite clear enough, though, because the car rolled over him. Sixteen is way to young to die.
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Trina Selleck 3 years ago
The seatbelt broke my sternum thru all three sections when I was the passenger of a head in crash at 80km/hr… the driver, without a seatbelt in, got a single stitch to the back of the head from where firewood came thru the back window… he was holding the steering wheel which saved him.. I am smart enough to know that I would of been launched out of the front windscreen like a projectile had I not been wearing one..
Lizzie Momchilovich 3 years ago
I wear a seatbelt most of the time, but when I don't, it is my choice and always should be.
Jeremy Bell 3 years ago
America is supposed to be the leader of the western world. I wouldn't follow them anywhere.
Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
I wonder what the statistics were before seatbelts were mandatory?
#6
48% of British people wouldn’t go to space even if their safety was guaranteed with the most popular reason being that they just simply didn’t have any interest in going
Solidhog 3 years ago
The real reason is if we British went to space we could not talk about how the weather is. WHAT WOULD WE TALK ABOUT?
Sebastián Morales 3 years ago
you talk about how the weather looks from up there
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Vihra Stancheva 3 years ago
I wouldn't go because I am afraid of big open spaces. Don't care if it is safe.
Yvonne Blau 3 years ago
I would go immediately if I had the opportunity... and I'm not at all someone who likes taking risks or needs adrenaline kicks... but this would just be a once in a lifetime thing, and I would go to space even if nobody could guarantee my safety.
I I 3 years ago
what do you do when you get there ? not like you can get a tan or grab a gift from the gift shop , just lots of SPACE
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
I've been fascinated with space since I was a kid thanks to Star Trek. However, without warp drive or quantum drive capabilities, what's the point? Still, if I was offered a seat, I'd jump at it.
Anna Repp 3 years ago
TBH, I'm with them. I love to travel, but I like to walk in the new places, explore the museums, taste the food and drink the local brews... I do not think I would enjoy the space as it is offered now - go up, take a snapshot, go back... When I can actually walk on Moon or on Mars unsupervised, I'd consider it.
Statistics also benefit us when we’re doing our weekly grocery shop. Stores use the data they collect on what products are being purchased the most frequently to decide how much to order. This is particularly important for items that become more popular in specific seasons, such as sunscreen in the summer months and hot chocolate in the winter. And if you want to determine the best time to go grocery shopping to avoid crowds, the stats will tell you to go on Mondays and Tuesdays. Skip shopping on Saturdays and Sundays, especially between 11am-12pm, as shoppers spend an average of 7 more minutes in stores on weekends due to crowds.
#7
Dragonflies have a 95% hunt success rate. Making them the most effective hunters in the world.
Dan West 3 years ago
In the swamps of Mississippi, dragonflies are called "mosquito hawks". We were taught to protect them.
dream of delusion 3 years ago
wait, really? i lived a few years in Mississippi, and always knew dragonflies as dragonflies, instead crane flies were known as mosquito hawks
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Jerry Mathers 3 years ago
And one of the absolute coolest insects ever, imo. True story- A friend and I were out shooting (photos) in a wetlands area. The kind of place that is filled with canals and cattails for miles. Though we were wearing repellent, the mosquitoes were so bad that if you missed a dime sized place with the repellent , it would have 4 mosquitoes on it. A swarm was following us around as we shot. As we walked by a Russian olive, hundreds of dragonflies came out it and the swarm was so significantly reduced that the background noise from the mosquitoes went from a loud buzzing to almost silence. Absolutely one of the coolest experiences I have had with dragonflies.
John L 3 years ago
That looks like a damsel fly, not a dragon fly. Dragon flies have a thicker/wider thorax and are larger than damsel flies.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
These are some fascinating creatures and definitely something to protect if for no other reason that they eat mosquitos. They're not the only one with beautiful colors and patterns; check out their "cousins" the damselfly
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
In midair! Even if they're missing a wing! Dragonflies "capture their prey in midair more than 95 percent of the time", according to a New York Times report, due to selective attention. They are the apex predator.
#8
93% of people don't check facts they read on the internet.
Paul Davis 3 years ago (edited)
It's especially obvious when you are an expert in a particular field, and keep seeing people providing the same really ignorant, mistaken advice about something related to it, and the bad info just gets parroted word-for-word all over the internet with absolutely no apparent critical thought whatsoever.
Roxanne West 3 years ago
If they were to check their facts, wouldn't the majority check them on the internet? Do they then need to check that? On the internet again? And check that as well?
Mateo Buysse 3 years ago
Might be solved more if certain sites actually put links to their sources if possible. Yes, i am looking at bored panda. And pretty much most news sites pretty much copying AP news and making their version of it.
Littlebunnyfufu 3 years ago
This! @Mateo Buysse Drives me nuts when news outlets cite some study and then don't link to the actual study or link to some other article referencing said study from the news outlet itself. So many times you have to click on a link which takes you to another link article which takes you to another link article which finally gives you the link to the original source. It's maddening!
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67% of statistics are made up
Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 years ago
Truth is that you can present a set of the same statistics to two different, and opposing, groups and they will interpret them/twist them to say what ever they want them to say. Even if they twist them to say opposite things.
Richard Black 3 years ago
99% of those are available exclusively through social media sites that rely on free user content.
Statistics can also be exciting when learning about topics we’re passionate about, like sports. Data analytics have become extremely important in the world of professional sports for team strategies and for the enjoyment of fans. It wasn’t until 2002, however, that sports analytics really started to take off. The catalyst was Billy Beane, who was general manager of the Oakland Athletics at the time, using statistical analysis to curate a powerful team of lesser-known baseball players. After the Athletics almost won the World Series, Beane’s strategy, which came to be known as “Moneyball”, quickly became the norm for other teams as well and even inspired a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt.
#10
Genghis Khan killed so many people that he cooled the earth by a bit.
Beth S 3 years ago
One man's journey to create a positive carbon footprint... Good Guy Genghis Khan? LOL!
Chris D'Asta 3 years ago
Beth. S**t. Sorry. I posted before reading yours. I feel like a plageurist.
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The Scout 3 years ago
He is said to still have 16 million living descendants. Which, of course, weren't all from his 500 wives... A popular German hit song from the 70's credits him with "fathering seven children in one night", which might not be so far from the truth.
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Glasia van Duivels 3 years ago
genghis khan killed more people than God (2476633) and the Devil (10) in the bible.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
After having the bible shoved down my throat as a kid I don't know why more people aren't satanists!!
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the_avenging_knight (her/she) 2 years ago
An austrian painter would like to know if you have any tips...
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RoseTheMad 3 years ago
I feel like the pandemic was somehow the earths attempt to depopulate and cool itself from all us damn destructive humans. :')
AnonymousApple 3 years ago
Genghis Khan was wild. Like I can't even imagine what went through that man's mind on a daily basis.
#11
Innocent people will admit to a crime they never committed 43% of the time.
Wilko Lunenburg 3 years ago
Never trust the police. Say nothing until a lawyer is present. NOTHING.
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BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
I mean I would. I am one of those people who gets scared at metal detectors or any security check point as if I am carrying a gun.
Mari 3 years ago
Me too! Or if they do a drug test at the security check point, I never used drugs (or sold) drugs in my life but I am nervous every time.
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I remember there was this one case where this guy was interrogated for countless hours until he confessed to murder. It was then found out he wasn't even in the country when the murder occurred and confessed because he was so distressed by the intense interrogation he actually thought he did it
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
US police use the Reid Technique of interrogation. Even Reid himself warned of its potential for misuse.
Sanne H. 3 years ago (edited)
A police officer once told me that he was trained to be sceptical about spontaneous confessions: When the police publicly announce that they are looking for a yet unknown criminal, it often happens that random people show up at the police office to turn themselves in. Not because they committed the crime, but because they THINK they did it. The human mind can be strange.
Random person 3 years ago
I... Genuinely can't tell whether or not you're being sarcatsic
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Khavrinen 3 years ago
That's because the techniques ( some ) police use to extract "confessions" basically consist of harassing someone constantly until they admit they did it. Do that long enough and eventually almost anyone will give up and "confess" just because they can't take it any more, and guilt or innocence have nothing to do with it.
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#12
Communism has worked 0% of the times it was tried.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Has communism really been tried? As opposed to some dictatorship under the guise of communism?
JoyfulZebra 3 years ago (edited)
Not really. Under the ideas of Marx, communism is a state of affairs in which there are no social classes, money, or the state. He believed that the workers should take control of the state through self-ownership (later in his life, Marx, as well as Engels, believed that communism could be achieved through elections in places such as the U.S. or Britain). In time, the state would wither away, and no longer exist. The style of Marxism that dominated in all of these communist countries is that of Leninism, or it's more conservative variant, Stalinism. These two schools of thought were based on violent revolution, the concentration of power in the State, and a general mistrust of the general population (which is why there needed to be a "vanguard"), a far cry from what Marx and Engels envisioned. If what they envisioned is completely feasible is another matter entirely.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Two reasons for this: (1) Communism has never really been tried. (2) Communism is not a valid form of government, since communism specifically repudiates the right of the State to even exist. (Bonus: No, China isn't communist any more than Russia is socialist.)
El Dee 3 years ago
No 'pure' doctrine works. And the reason for it is that human nature intervenes. Capitalism doesn't work as capitalism is NOT used in any country. For example, the 'invisible hand' is always helped or stayed by corporate intervention or government intervention. Ideologies just fail in different directions..
Adrian 3 years ago
No pure form exists because none of them take into consideration 'human nature'. Aspects such as greed, crime, jealousy, fear, stubbornness, desire, and etc. are never factored in.
Load More Replies... Ben Moss 3 years ago
Ok I’m gonna let my anarcho-syndicalist flag fly rn but ANY hierarchy is prone to corruption and rewards psychopaths. Communism fails for the same reasons capitalism fails.
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Faith Love-robertson 3 years ago
Actually despite the interpretations of communism that always carry the culture and expectations of the system it replaces, there have been instances when communism not only worked but was absolutely necessary. In periods of extreme stress, famine and war when the ruling class abdicates its responsibility to actually rule effectively then collective action is the only way to save the society.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
You have a point, but in such circumstances people are likely to be more co-operative and less competitive . But under normal non-life threatening circumstances people are too greedy and power hungry for communism to ever work.
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gibbon 3 years ago
Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried
Random person 3 years ago
Communism sounds good on paper, with everyone being the same. It sounds like it would eradicate poverty and hunger, but then everyone gets peanuts and it crashes and burns.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
The economist John Kenneth Gailbraith said, "Under communism, man exploits man. But under capitalism, it's the other way around."
According to a report from Research and Markets, the global sports analytics industry is expected to reach $3.4 billion by 2028. Part of the reason for this is the speed at which analytics technology has evolved. Companies like Genius Sports, for example, are able to “generate statistical breakdowns from video footage to help coaches optimize their play calling during games or generate post-game takeaways”. Cameras are also used by many companies to track player movement, ball speeds and more. But it’s not only the teams who benefit from this data. Fans use these statistics to create their fantasy league teams and place bets on who will win games.
#13
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.
Solidhog 3 years ago
Karen says you can't say manbat. You have to say personbat.
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Riley Quinn 3 years ago
I'm very fond of bats, so it bothers me how their numbers are being decimated.
Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
But it depends on how you define "species". Even biologists can't agree on the differentiation of species.
Mayrene Chester 3 years ago
So this Covid-19 variant is just one in a few thousand combinations.
#14
That the remains found in Machu Picchu are 80% female.
Scagsy 3 years ago
Now I don't know what to believe! Rob says hookers and Pam says virgins. Can't both be right. I'm gonna throw another one into the mix... maybe they were at war and the men had all gone off to fight? (Please note: This suggestion is based entirely on conjecture and has no basis in fact that I am aware of. Thought you should know.)
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Kristie French 3 years ago
This is incorrect. When Machu Pichu was rediscovered in 1911. The bones found were mostly smaller than than what the researchers were used to seeing, and so they assumed that all of the smaller skeletons were female , they were also working on theory that Machu Pichu was the home to the Vigins of the Sun, and due to that, they looked for clues to prove their theory, which is bad scientific method. Newer studies of the bones show that it was closer to a 50/50 split.
Alphabet Soupy 3 years ago
That’s been debunked, I believe. From the Reddit thread linked: They don't think that's true anymore. George Eaton, one of the first archaeologist that studied the Machu Picchu skeletons, classified sex based on height. Like, if the skeleton was over 5'6" it must be a man, right? He didn't consider that the Inca population might not have the same genetics as his friends from back home. Turns out he was probably wrong. Here's a free article from 2003 that goes pretty in-depth about it: https://www.johnverano.com/Verano/Publications_files/Machu%20Pichu_2003%20optimized.pdf That article gives a ratio of closer to 1.5:1 instead of Eaton's 4:1 women to men. There's a National Geographic documentary-esque show on Disney+ that talks quite a bit about it, too. I think it's the one called "Lost City of Machu Picchu."
Aradia Sayner 3 years ago
This theory was debunked in 2000 by Verano after further examination of the remains revealed that they were roughly equal amounts of male and female remains.
Katia Murillo 3 years ago
"Further analysis carried out by Bradley, would result that would be difficult to determine the gender of skeletons without pelvic bones. This fact was determined by DNA analysis, with which it was determined that of the 135 skeletons found in Machu Picchu, 109 belonged to women and only a few belonged to men and boys."
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Bruce Trotz 3 years ago
Untrue, they originally used measurement’s comparing skeletons of European decent South American males were of smaller stature. This has been proven incorrect.
Kelli Tomko 3 years ago
Were they wiped out by war? That might account for men not being in the city.
Salty Wild Hair 3 years ago
Could be this is a place of safety, where the men of their tribes left them as they went to battle. And one day they never came back? Could be they were sacrifices.
#15
Brazil is the country that kills the most trans women per year.
Brazil is also the country where the porn category with the most viewers is the one with trans women.
ttttt 3 years ago
USA also kills a lot of trans women, particularly POC. Americans, please help fight anti-trans laws being passed all over the US now.
Ann Worth 3 years ago (edited)
"At least 50 trans and gender non-conforming people were killed this year [2021] alone, per a report by LGBTQ advocacy organization the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)—the highest number of deaths since the organization began recording fatal violence in 2013." https://time.com/6131444/2021-anti-trans-violence/ However, this is apparently a lower rate than the rate at which cisgender women are murdered. https://unherd.com/2022/01/the-truth-about-trans-murders/
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Henry Shane 3 years ago
Make something taboo and it becomes a fetishi. Makes it forbidden and interesting, so if a place hates something they will usually also fetish it. People are weird in that groups are dynamic so the gradient from love to hate can become blurry leading to the far ends.
Chris D'Asta 3 years ago
How is that even possible? I know of one Trans Porn star who was apparently thrown from a hotel balcony in Argentina, I believe.. I don't believe the details ever came out. F*****g sexist swine. Respect all beings.
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
While the Christ the Redeemer statue watches. They can call themselves Christians, but they're not.
Richard Black 3 years ago
Statisrics from Iran, China, and Russia are undergoing a recount . .
Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
The first part of this post makes me sick to my stomach. The second part is really nobody's business.
No matter what your favorite sport is, I’m sure you can find a high-tech analytics company that’s pumping out fascinating data about your favorite athletes. For example, Trace in Austin, Texas, uses recording gear and an AI system to analyze film from soccer games, so coaches and players don’t have to. Players wear tracking devices that record their games, and an AI bot stitches together clips of all of the most important moments. Trace also notes performance metrics including minutes played, distance ran, top speed, max efforts, and stamina, and creates a heat map tracking where players spent most of their time during a game. Technology like this saves coaches time and helps them create more effective strategies for future games.
#16
Survey of Fortune 500 executives found that 93% agree the golf reflects life.
86% admit to cheating at golf.
Chris D'Asta 3 years ago
I don't know Maths but that looks like all Fortune 500 CEO's are liars and cheats. Am I wrong, friends?
Nicole Weymann 3 years ago
Counting "mistakes" for one. In most non-professional/recreational golf matches you keep your own score, nobody checks them. And even if they did, you just might have had a bad day to be so far out of your handicap (which nobody could keep track of anyway). Trump is said to cheat by being the first to play any new course he can get to, thus always setting a record by default ("nobody ever played it better!").
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Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Golfers are a-holes whether they cheat or not. Golf has a huge negative impact with its pesticide use, grotesque amounts of water, and the destruction of wildlife habitat.
Wim Cossement 3 years ago
Golf is for rich assholes to lazy to walk from one hole to another. And a waste of fresh water.
#17
There are more privately owned guns than people in the U.S. (Washington Post June 19, 2018)
TeenieMeanie 3 years ago
Played violent video games all my life. Never once have I jumped on a turtle or gone down a pipe.
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Donkey boi 3 years ago
Ah yes, your 2nd amendment! The one most twisted from its meaning. I wonder, how many of those gun owners are members of "A well regulated Militia"? what with it "being necessary to the security of a free state". I'd also argue that the words 'the people' in the part "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" refers to their representatives (ie. the military, Militia, police), in the same way a district attorney would address themselves to a court as 'The people' (eg. The people rest, your honour). You need to think of the time that it was written when you consider the language used.
madbakes 3 years ago
Us smart Americans know this. The gun-crazed just seem to remember the "right to bear arms" part.
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Charles Kormos 3 years ago
Yet under 30% of all Americans own guns. Non-gun owners out number gun owners at least 2 to 1. That is the same super majority needed to repeal the Second Amendment.
Paul Ellis 3 years ago
I handed my target handguns in to the police after the Dunblane massacre in Scotland, 1996. I have zero regrets - these days I write for a hobby. Injures and inconveniences nobody!!
Richard Black 3 years ago
This seema suspect. Isnt the WaPo the paper that said Hunter Bidens laptop was faked?
ann hoskins 3 years ago
Well, yeah, but the press can accidentally be right once in a while. A LOT of law-abiding citizens own guns. The guns stay where they are and don't get up and roam around, committing crimes on their own. Now, if the WaPo gets together with some politicians, you know some shady stuff is about to happen... ;-)
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Kiera Jewel 3 years ago
Ok, my brain totally parced this as there being fewer people owned than there are guns. Which is also a true statistic... Thank goodness!!!!
Jerry Ryan 3 years ago
I believe if someone does choose to responsibley own a gun/rifle they have the right BUT I know someone who owns about 30 I also think that's 29 to many
Luthor 3 years ago (edited)
Why can't the United States just try gun laws? Give it two or three years with proper buy back policies and restricted purchasing laws. If it doesn't work then just go back to where you were before? Why can't they just try???!!!! If it didn't work the gun nuts would be vindicated... if it did there would be less dead children. Seems like a win/win to me. But I know they won't even try.... they just don't seem to care.
#18
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.
Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
I read that the composition of bacteria found in a belly button is as unique as a fingerprint.
Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 years ago
Oh goody, now they're going to want to put a swab in our belly buttons too! Can you see the National Database of Belly Button Bacteria, the NDBBB?
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I do composting in my belly button. We can all do our little bit to help save the Earth.
Richard Black 3 years ago
This might explain the recent surge in Monkeypox infections worldwide .
When it comes to statistical analysis, there are 7 key types: descriptive, inferential, predictive, prescriptive, exploratory, causal and mechanistic. Each type serves a slightly different purpose, but they all help the world go round. Descriptive statistics, for example, deal with “organizing and summarizing data using numbers and graphs”. Using visual aids like graphs and tables is an efficient way to convey information because it's more palatable for the general population. These are often used in news articles to simplify complex data. As the name suggests, inferential statistics allow us to infer generalizations about data and “make conclusions with respect to future outcomes” by testing hypotheses. This method often uses the sampling theory, various tests of significance and statistical control.
#19
The leading cause of death for ages 5 to 18 (correction 1 through 18) has recently switched from car crashes to gun violence in the US.
Your school age child is more likely to die from gun violence than any other cause, including car crashes. 21% gun violence, 20% car crashes.
(Edit: Seeing as rates of gun violence for 1 to 4 year olds is exceedingly low (accidental deaths are a different category), the picture for 5 to 18 year olds is likely higher than 21%)
Nathaniel 3 years ago
The "freedom" to have guns seemingly outweighs the freedom of not seeing children gunned down.
Monday 3 years ago
Ugh another libtard...how dare you take away a child's right to be brutally gunned down in their classroom? /s
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alwaysMispelled 3 years ago
Why don't children have the right to go to school and not be scared they'll be shot? Or the right to go to school and just NOT. BE. SHOT.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Well you have to understand that any restriction on gun ownership at all cuts into the profits of gun makers who have spent very good money buying politicans and spreading the idea that guns = freedom. This is the saddest part of the whole story - the corporate executives and shareholders who get victimized by these vicious, selfish people who keep saying their kids' lives should be worth more than that second yacht or European villa some multi-millionaire has been working hard to achieve.
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El Dee 3 years ago
I genuinely don't understand why the US is like this. They love their guns more than their children, if that wasn't true they'd have done something about it by now, wouldn't they..
Tamra 3 years ago
No. Our government loves campaign money from gun rights activists more than they care about the lives of the people they're meant to serve. The majority of Americans want gun control, and to say "Americans love guns more than their children" is a slap in the face of every parent who's had to bury a child because of this madness.
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Currently, about 41% of Americans have been or personally know a victim of gun violence. Gun owners will certainly keep shooting us. Eventually, 100% of all elected officials will have their own gunshot wounds or dead children to motivate them to repeal the Second Amendment.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
I was watching Ted Cruz's vacuous and disgusting comments after the most recent school shooting, and I thought that his reaction would be completely different if there was a mass shooting on the floor of the Senate.
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Clarf 3 years ago
So sad. People call themselves pro-life, but don't want to give up their guns so that lives can be saved.
Lizzie Momchilovich 3 years ago
Almost nothing at all but aggravate and almost even give terrorists even more encouragement ("hey, look at me, I'm doing something even more illegal and getting even more attention for it!"). I am not in any way suggesting that I know the solution for gun violence, but I am certain that taking away people's guns is NOT it.
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I am wondering to what extent the recent school shooting has traumatised elementary school children to not wish to attend school at all. And perhaps not just elementary age kids....it breaks my cynical old heart.
Colleen Hindson 3 years ago
Child sacrifice is now an accepted part of right wing gun culture.
Scott Osborne 3 years ago
Seems to me that their interpretation of the "right to bear arms" is in direct conflict with "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
#20
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.
Sanne H. 3 years ago (edited)
It’s easy to judge, if you’re not a 1930s German, living in a country with a huge war debt, a deep war trauma after 1918, right after the börsenkrach of 1929 and with a new leader promising a bright future, supported by very smart propaganda.
Schnee Wittchen 3 years ago
Sanne is right, just imagine being told all that c**p from early childhood on... You start believing the rubbish
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t-Grex 3 years ago
Sounds almost like when my relatives say we used to not own slaves...we're white southerners who own a lot of plantation land and I have visited the slave graveyard on the old property. It's delusional for them to think that. Although my extended folks are...special.
Anna Meyers 1 year ago
Or like my family. They were New Englanders. They didn't own slaves. Oh, but they were ship captains. Did you know if they needed to lighten the loads at sea, slaves were considered "ballast?" You can find out awful things going through archives.
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Jon S. 3 years ago
Assuming each living German has 8 relatives who were alive at the time of the war (probably more if you includes aunts/uncles), then I can see each family preserving one story about something one of them did in defiance of the Nazis, where as the bad stories never get spoken. Remembrance bias.
DC 3 years ago
... that, plus whatever is considered help may vary by a great margin. Bought stuff at a jew's shop? Helped them! Not snitching out everyone, often, is consideed "having helped them". Of course, the standards the participation in Naziery s measured by, are different. Led the local HJ, smashed a doze Windows on crystal's night, snitched about hundreds of people? "I did what I had to do to keep myself out of trouble...".
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I know my Grandpa was in the Waffen SS. I don't know any details. Help? Not so much. His father always bragged about havng bought shoes at a jewish shoemaker's after the NSDAP had taken over power, but ... what amount of help is that? Doing what dozens of people did every day before the Nazis, and were just about to stop doing at his place. It's what everybody should have done, nothing outstanding about it. Whatever Grandpa did in WW2, I know exyctly two stories, which were "Haha, we were kinda a weird bunch, haha", anecdotal humanity showing up in inhumane beings of similar physiology.......
Ian Webling 3 years ago (edited)
Interesting statistic. When the Allies entered Germany, they found that zero percent of the populace supported or had supported the Nazis. /s
Michael Largey 3 years ago
After Watergate, you couldn't find anybody who had voted for Nixon.
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#21
There are more Panda Express restaurants than actual Pandas
Madeleine Flowers 3 years ago
Obviously not, there are way more Bored Pandas than Panda Express Restaurants
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Kona Pake 3 years ago
It’s not a stat, ask just some numbers a guy threw out.
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Taco Bell sells tacos. Burger King sells hamburgers. Chicken Delight sells chicken. Panda Express are lying sonsofbitches…
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
Panda Express' slogan is Gourmet Chinese Food. Wrong on all three counts, as far as i'm concerned.
Predictive analysis is also pretty self-explanatory, as it is used to make predictions about future events based on “current and past facts and figures". We rely on predictive analysis for weather forecasts, and many businesses including marketing companies, insurance companies, financial corporations and online service providers use predictive analysis to gain competitive advantages. Conversely, prescriptive analysis uses data to determine the best reaction to a situation. It relies on several techniques including simulation, graph analysis, algorithms, complex event processing and more.
#22
Chopping wood for an hour results in a 48% increase in testosterone in men.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Did you feel the need to spit, shout at ball games on tv, and drink a six pack?
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Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
(He cuts down trees He skips and jumps He likes to press wild flowers He puts on women's' clothing and hangs around in bars...)
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
Any kind of woodworking, really. It also results in the sprouting of lush beards and turning your shirts into plaid flannel.
Lukas-not-Luca (he/him) 3 years ago
So.... I need to go chop wood instead of just waiting until I'm 18 to start HRT?
#23
You have far more chances to die from a a coconut fall than by a shark attack
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
Deer are the deadliest animal in America. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal in the world.
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Scagsy 3 years ago
Obviously, this is purely geographical. If you are hanging off the side of a mountain, you have very little chance of being offed by a stray coconut (Though I won't rule it out completely because there is a slim chance that a fellow climber is carrying poorly secured coconuts higher up the rockface) and even less chance of being eaten by a shark (Unless...no, zero chance). Just thought I would let you know that I know that. I'm smart.
Jerry Ryan 3 years ago
Since I don't live in a area that grows coconuts or sharks I fill pretty safe that I have no worries
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Not me. Great whites swim off the shore in this area, but there's not a single coconut.
#24
A full 6 percent of Americans reckon they could beat a grizzly bear in unarmed combat.
Edit: And before another bear arm joke, just fyi bears already don’t have arms. So removing bear arms doesn’t improve your chances. Technically, all four are legs, with the front two called forelegs.
Pixie 3 years ago
Perhaps because it mentions only grizzly bears. There are for sure more people that are sure of victory against brown or black bears.
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UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
I 100% believe that if a grizzly wanted to fight me I would die, and that it would hurt a lot.
Joseph Hawk 3 years ago
You could kick your friend in the knee and run. Just saying, you don’t have to stay for the fight!
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Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
I could beat a grizzly bear in armed combat because they don't have arms.
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
The only thing you could beat when fighting a grizzly bear unarmed is the record of how long you would last before you died.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
So bears are hexapods, with 6 legs total, right? They have two hind legs in the back, and forelegs in the front. Simple arithmetic....
Jerry Ryan 3 years ago
Good that's a win for Darwin and the rest of us who can beat a shark using coconuts
Exploratory analysis is generally “the first step of the data analysis process that is conducted prior to any other statistical analysis techniques”. It is not the sole method for predicting or drawing conclusions, but it provides a preview of data and can give valuable insight. Causal analysis is used to understand the reason behind why events occur. For example, it can be used by businesses to trace what went wrong in a failed experiment or by IT companies to check the quality assurance of their software. Lastly, mechanistic analysis is the least common type and is used to “understand the definite changes that could make changes in other variables”. For example, it is used in biological sciences "when studying and inspecting how various parts of the virus are affected by making changes in medicine".
#25
50% of human DNA is shared with bananas
Rob 3 years ago
People who share this either never say or don't understand biology and how we are similar to most other organisms because DNA just is a code for proteins and most cells and organisms use the same proteins in order for their cells to function. The fact we are similar to bananas is because plants fungi and animals need the same proteins for most of the basic processes.
Daenarys 3 years ago
Yeah, I'm not sure why the banana got singled out, it's the same percentage for humans and all plants.
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Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
Country to popular belief, monkeys don't eat bananas. They actually eat banana seeds. That is why monkeys only harvest wild bananas, and they don't bother cultivated bananas.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
Does that mean we're 50% cannibals when we're eating bananas? jkjk XP
#26
There are 1.9 popes per square mile in the Vatican City
Subrata Pradhan 3 years ago
Vatican City is 0.19 sq mi, so as per the fact stated above , there are supposed to be 0.361 popes, so random statistics doesn't mean to be true always.
Lem 3 years ago (edited)
I got 5.3 popes per square mile if there’s only one pope… Population density = Number/Area = 1 pope/0.19 mi² = 5.2632 popes/mi². But this math may be wrong.
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Kyle Drury 3 years ago
The lesson here is that statistics can be misleading when presented certain ways.
Jeffrey Diehl 3 years ago
That's too many. The popes should all be gone. Just a bunch of money and soul sucking parasites
DetongLhamo 3 years ago
The Vatican has the highest crime rate in the world, with more crimes committed each year than there are residents.
#27
The Birthday Paradox:
It only takes 23 people in the same room for there to be a 50% chance two of them share the same birthday.
Difference between a million and a billion. When put in perspective by units of time, one million seconds is 12 days, one billion seconds is 31 years.
James016 3 years ago
I share my birthday with my late Grandpa, my parent's next door neighbour's eldest son, my friend's brother and one of my wife's friends. (It's this coming Sunday)
RandomFrog 3 years ago
I was born a Friday the thirteenth and the girl who sat infront of in science me shared my b day. Also, our bday that year was on the Super Bowl.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
I have only met two persons who share my birthday. One of them is exactly 10 years younger than I, and we worked for same retail sporting company in southern California. He hired me 15 years later and over 640 miles distant, to work for a completely different retail sporting goods company in Portland Oregon. We knew each other only in passing with the first company, and did not know our birthdate coincidence until after he hired me.
Kiwi Panda 3 years ago
I don’t know anyone personally that I share a birthday with. To be fair, I don’t know that many people…
Anna Meyers 1 year ago
Right now there is a 100% chance I share a birthday with someone in the next room. My daughter was born on my birthday.
Anna Meyers 1 year ago
And my former neighbor across the street, and Mickey Mouse.
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Adam Eccleshall 3 years ago
The difference between millions and billions of seconds is even grater if you use the European / long rather than the American / short billion - 31709.79 years :)
I hope this list is showing you how interesting random statistics about our world can be. I'm thankful for all of the curious statisticians who did the work to figure out these facts and all of the Reddit users who were able to share them with us. Don't forget to upvote all of your favorites, and then let us know in the comments what the most interesting statistic you know is!
#28
If you made $295,000 every single day since the birth of Christ, you still wouldn't be worth what Elon Musk is.
Edit: Let's put the same concept into seconds. If you were to do a conversion of dollars to seconds ($1 = 1 second), the median American gets 1 day and 10 hours (net worth of $121,760).
Elon musk would get 6,910 YEARS.
Lucifer 3 years ago
If Elon Musk lives to be 69 years or 6910 years and if he's worth $277 or $277 billion. He's still a douche with hairplugs and no amount of money or time can change that.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
I'm so happy that I'm not hearing so much Elon Musk worship these days. I had enough of that with Steve Jobs. Sick of people claiming selfish billionaires who barely show a spark of creativity and just tell actually creative people to do things as being geniuses who will save the world.
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rspanther 3 years ago
I'm worth just as much as he is, as a person, he is just richer than I am.
New Everywhere 3 years ago
YES, me too dammit! Rspanther you just made my day
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Theoretically if you had the money and the resources to end world hunger and you chose NOT too, what kind of person would that make you?
Anastasia Redmond 3 years ago
Well Musk could spend $34 per person on food. People in the poorest countries earn more.
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Seán Hannan 3 years ago
I'm (and every single one of us is) already worth what Elon Musk is. I just haven't got as much money as he has.
Richard Black 3 years ago
And somehow he persuaded the US government to give a $7500 tax subsidy to everyone who bought a Tesla. Eiher the man is a genius, or our politicians should be tried for corruption.
Tom Susala 3 years ago
Even with all his money, Mr. Musk could NEVER acquire a pleasing personality.
Lizzie Momchilovich 3 years ago
Sorry, but Elon musk is an a*****e who is pollution outer space with satellites just so he can have an internet service that isn't even as fast as already existing internet on earth.
#29
The human eye blinks about 4.2 million times a year on average
#30
The job with the highest death rate historically in the US is President
Edit: I didn’t factor in lifetime appointments, so technically I was wrong if you count that
The Scout 3 years ago
The most deadly job on the planet seems to be pope, as all but one of them died while in ofiice.
Donkey boi 3 years ago
45 people have been president of the United states. 4 of those have been assassinated while in office, that's an 8.89% mortality rate. Compare that with Logging, where in 2021 it was estimated to have a 0.09% mortality rate with around 92 deaths per 100,000 full time employees.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
You're leaving out the number of presidents who died in office of natural causes. If only assasinations counted, you would have to include only loggers who have been assassinated on the job.
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Archer Harris 3 years ago
Tbh I feel like we need a younger president. They need a cut off age for older people like Joe and Donald
Richard Black 3 years ago
Im pretty sure both astronaut and alaskan commercial fishing boat crewmen are higher
#31
Cigarette butts make up ~38% of all litter collected, and can take up to 10 years to decompose.
If you smoke, please just throw them in an ash tray. Or better yet, stop smoking.
Edit: phrasing
AmAndA_Panda 3 years ago
Rather filters get thrown on the ground as litter or in the trash to be added to a landfill, they're still non biodegradable. Don't be a douche and litter. But not littering isn't going to help as far as how long it takes to decompose. Filters don't do anything anyway. Stop smoking or use filterless.
Virginie Michaud 3 years ago
The 10 years thing isn't quite right. I once did an archeology dig in a site that was a campgroung innrhe 1960s. And guess what we found in that layer? 40+ year old cigarette butts. And that's for those that stay on the ground. A large number get blown into the seqer system and enter the waterway because they float over the grids that collect trash. And they then become microplastics. They represent a large fraction of the source of microplastics which then adsorb pollutants and are ingested in the food chain, thus increasing significantly the exposure to pollutants in a compounding way. Just one 9f the ways it affects biodiversity. It's raining polluted microplastics in Antarctica, most of it are cigarette butts. Each cigarette butts pollutes 500L of water.
#32
Used to work as a meteorologist. More people die from flooding each year than from every other natural disaster added together. A good portion, at least, are people who think their cars can make it through the water when they obviously cannot.
Schnee Wittchen 3 years ago
Better listen to the people who know... They do not warn you out of boredom
Casey Ironmonger 3 years ago (edited)
The first (and ONLY!) time I ever drove across a flooded bridge, over 40 years ago, my car started skipping sideways from the water flow. Two cars (one was a 4WD) approaching from the other side quickly reversed when they saw what was happening to me. I (obviously) made it across. Within minutes, the water had risen almost another foot higher. I would never push my luck again and I totally understand the warnings when police advise NOT to cross flooded roads!
#33
I read somewhere that about 80% of Indians feel that if they're too happy something bad is around the corner.
I'm.Just.A.Girl 3 years ago
Tbh, no streak of anything will last forever so technically something to change your current state of mind is inevitable. It's our reactions to things that we have control over. I hope people don't down-vote me for this. But it's always been my experience.
