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If you read Bored Panda, you know we like data. If we're doing a story on a woman banning her mother-in-law from her house, we look at what experts have to say on family relationships. If we're writing about employees quitting on a demanding boss, we present surveys on worker needs.

Numbers help us humans to contextualize individual examples and show us how common or rare, loved or hated something is in a broader sense.

Interested in the big picture, they give us the big picture, Reddit user Awesomeguy256 posted a question to the platform, asking its users "What is the most interesting statistic?" Since then, people have left over 14,000 comments under it, many of which share fascinating information on everything from economics to the animal kingdom. Here are some of the best ones.

#1

35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything More Vietnam vets [took their own lives] than [passed away] in the war.

Fewwordsbetter , israel palacio Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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.

Qubeye , Mental Health America (MHA) Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 80% of Orange Tabby cats are male.

kitkat_pro , Sam Chang Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idiots whined about a piece of cloth that could save them from a deadly virus, don’t try talk sense to the senseless.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that's the reason time-travel remain a science fiction, unless we figure out, how to break the now-known physics' laws.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything Statistically speaking the average person is a 30 year old Chinese man.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.)

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything That by almost all important measures, the world is a better place to live today than at any other time in human history.

keenly_disinterested , Benigno Hoyuela Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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.

Munninnu , NASA Robotics Competitions Sheyene Gerardi Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This fact should cause a rebellion. But unfortunately we rather act like sheep.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's cause they distracted us by giving us cell phones. Now instead of rebelling we post a fucken black square or use a hash rage or change our profile pics to a flag & we call ourselves revolutionaries. We've been brainwashed into believing that's enough.. we've been brainwashed into believing we don't have to revolt to change the world. All the while the opposite is true. Like... imagine if in the US we all just stopped paying our medical bills.... the insurance companies would all crumble & make room for universal healthcare... but nope. We're a slave to conformity... even when it is at our own expense & it hurts us to follow suit.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like I read somewhere that the top 3* richest people in the world could end world hunger multiple times. They can also probably end homelessness. That second statement is just my opinion. Instead, insanely wealthy people have to be like, "Hey, let's see who can launch a cockrocket into space and ruin Mars instead of saving Earth!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did he have San eye injury or some kind? I'm not being rude, but every picture I see if him he looks like this. Of course every picture of me tend to look like I've just been goosed. Yes I know including my panda pic.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you have 10,000 back issues of National Geographic in a two-bedroom apartment, you're called a hoarder and taken for psychological counseling (or at least brutally exploited on reality TV) before you burn your building down. If you’re a predator/parasite and have 10 billion dollars in countless secret offshore tax evasion accounts, you're called a Titan of Industry and worshipped by the very masses whom you’re killing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly, these guys aren't the best of anything, just the most fortunate. They havnt worked harder than any of us. The American dream is a lie.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What would happen if the 1% each gave 1% of their wealth to help other people. Oh wait. Building big space penises is more important.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The way I see it, they have an addiction to wealth. So I pray for them just like I pray for other self-centered, destructive addicts, that one day they can wake up and want to recover.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obscene. No one needs or can even spend all that money. No one.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle, than for an obscenely rich tosspot to enter the kingdom of God. Or something like that.

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Cathy Hurd
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely disgusting statistic. Absolutely nobody is worth that.

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kcanded
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish I could make these ultra-billionaires realize that THEY DON'T NEED 14 CARS OR 23 HOUSES OR $3000 SUITS. PAY YOUR WORKS A LIVING WAGE FOR GOD'S SAKE!

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Patricia Maxfield
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hate this little creep, he could feed a small country and what does he do? Build a rocket to take himself and his friends into space for 15 minutes. I refuse to ever buy anything from Amazon…..disgusting greedy little turd.

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April Pickett
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just get them to pay their taxes as regular people do here in the U.S. and in the other countries where they have houses, yachts, etc.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A few more facts about money: --- The median annual American household income is $53,000. --- If you could save $500 per month in a high interest savings account at 1.25% and never touch it, you could save $1million in around 78 years. --- If you were given $100k on the day you were born and another $100k for every birthday after that and lived to be 100, you would have $10million --- There is about a 20-30% chance you might live to be 100. --- The combined net worth of the 100 richest people /families in the world is $4,801,300,000,000 or 4 trillion 801 billion 300 million. Half of that amount is made up by the top 20 richest people. --- The 100th richest person in the world has a net worth of $17.1 billion

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He looks like he should be wearing a monocle and be plotting something devious. Okay, so he's probably already plotting, he just needs the monocle.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People tend to forget that these people are so wealthy only because other people BUY their products or services.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to say that rich people don't have a lot of money, but the statistic is misleading. The poorest person in the world has more money than hundreds of millions of the poorest people combined. Because millions of people in the world are in debt. If 10 people each have, say, $1000 in debt, than combined those 10 people have $10,000 in debt. But any one of them only has $1000 in debt. So any one of them is richer than the other 10 combined. That's how we get some of the more extreme statistics about how the richest people have more than X poorest people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once came across the statistic: The 87 richest people in the world have more money than the 87 poorest people in the world.

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Jessi Evans
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why does each side of his face look like two completely different people 😮

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Chich
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see a picture of hima nd all I think is "D**k rocket"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another sad fact. Can you imagine having all that wealth and finding someway to get it to the people that really need it? Not through some faceless organization that takes 90% for administrative fees

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Ray McArdle
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do I get the feeling that they really don't control their wealth and couldn't just give it away, even if they wanted to?

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OKAY BUT LISTEN BRO. Elon Musk is hundreds of billions of dollars away from being a Millionaire. I am a million dollars away from being a millionaire. You tell me who's richer lol

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The poorest half of the planet is mostly unskilled, illiterate, and jobless. Like it has been for 8,000 years.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything The average cumulus cloud weighs more than the Statue of Liberty.

denny31415926 , C Dustin Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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.

ALittleNightMusing , United Kingdom Government Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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%.

RamsesThePigeon , Robert Anderson Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My uncle, great-uncle and I all share a birthday. I wonder what the stats are for family members having the same birthday are...

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 3-4 billion people on this planet earn $2.50 or less per day.

chelseatys , Mathieu Turle Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 25% of California’s air pollution is from China.

cOOlio-pasta , Jim Gardner Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything America has about 5% of the worlds population but about 25% of the worlds criminals.

Gaarakotq , RODNAE Productions Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 3% of everyone on earth alive in 1939 died in WWII.

paul99501 , Duncan Kidd Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We need to do better, and stop these wars.(I’m looking at you Putin)

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything South America is moving away from Africa at about the same speed your fingernails grow.

stickmanDave , Sophie Louisnard Report

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#22

35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything Only 3% of the Earth's water is fresh.

NantiAboutThat , Michael C Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

pm_me_anythingg_sfw , Miika Silfverberg Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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.

dudewhatwouldhappen , Joshua Newton Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything Over 1 million earths could fit into the sun.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything Size-wise, a particle of dust is halfway between a subatomic particle and the Earth.

anon , Kunj Parekh Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 86% of British people live within 8 miles from where they were born.

Gsurhijrsee , Ian Taylor Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything Fat leaves our body 86% through the breath. The other 14% leaves our body through water.

PleiadianJedi , engin akyurt Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, every time we are looking up to the sky, we are seeing the past.... how it was hundreds of thousand, million years ago.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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.

TryToHelpPeople , Barbora Dostálová Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 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%.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First marriage, 3 years. His 8 years. Our marriage, 25 years and still in love.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 85% of all Americans live within 20 minutes of a Walmart.

VoltaicParticle , Mike Mozart Report

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything There are more trees on planet Earth than there are stars in our galaxy.

SonoftheBread , Jason Leem Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Considering another fact "there are more star in the universe than the sand grain on beach" i'am not believing this one

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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything 25% of the earths crust is actually made of iron like in your cereal.

thirdageofmen , Lottie Report

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