26Darwin Award Winners
The majority of Darwin Award winners, nearly 90% are male.
27. Around 10-20% of Americans and a higher percent of Europeans are infected with a brain parasite (Toxoplasma gondii) from cats that makes them 2.5 times more likely to get in a car accident, changes personality traits, contributes to schizophrenia, and may cause sexual attraction to cat urine.
28. Attaching green LED lights to nets used by small-scale fisherman can reduce the number of green sea turtle deaths by 64%, without affecting the number of fish caught.
29. More than 90% of the monarch butterfly population has vanished in the last 25 years.
30. Around 45% of couples in Hong Kong say they have given up on the idea of having children because of crowding and high housing costs. In another survey, 38% of men and 31% of women simply said they didn’t like kids.
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31Peanut butter
About 80% of the peanut butter sold in the U.S. is creamy. Only 17% is crunchy.
32. About 33% of the men in Britain aged between 35 and 60 years are unable to see their penis due to obesity.
33. About 95% of the Mongols are lactose intolerant yet eat a diet that consists heavily of dairy products.
34. The United States experiences approximately 75% of all tornadoes in the world.
35. About 53% of the people who live in Fiji don’t have access to clean, safe water yet Fiji water is the nation’s largest export.
