26STD
Over 80% of sexually active people will contract an STD (permanent or temporarily) at some point, but most won't know it because they won't show any symptoms.
27. Wearing a seatbelt correctly reduces chance of front seat passenger fatality due to front end collision by 45%. Seat belts save lives. Also airbags are more likely to cause injuries rather than prevent them when seat belts are not worn.
28. Everyone was the youngest person alive for a brief moment after their birth.
29. The richest 1% person 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 billion people.
30. By the age of 3, the average child in a professional (lawyer, doctor, engineer, accountant, economist, etc.) family will have heard 20 million more words than a child in a middle-class family and 35 million more than a child in a low-income family. Children from professional families also hear more unique words and twice as many "encouraging" vs. "discouraging" conversations than children from middle-class or low-income families.
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31Earths
Over 1.3 million earths could fit into the sun.
32. Take all the known data from the beginning of human history, up to year 2003. Currently, we produce an equivalent amount of data every 2 days.
33. "Fishing is the most dangerous occupation in America (128.9 deaths per 100,000 people), compared to logging (115.7), the military (82, the leading cause being "accident"), flying (72.4), structural iron and steel working (46.4), mining (35) and policing (11.1). The average worker's fatality rate is 3.6."
34. 25% of the earth's crust is actually made of iron like in your cereal.
35. The population of Ireland has not yet recovered half-way from a Great Irish Famine of 1845. The immediate effects of the famine saw a great many people killed by starvation or disease and others emigrated 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.
36Internet Explorer
There is a huge correlation between Internet Explorer and murder rates.
Re #22: Another plot twist, so to speak, in the solitaire issue is that a game that should be winnable is one which is winnable in at least one way. For those games, and also for games that are winnable in only one way, the player can easily make the “wrong” choice, thus losing a winning situation.
They are some really cool facts, but I don’t believe your information is correct, actually, I think your information is bullshit! Where did you get it from, a cows anus? Come on! Other than that great page.
Sorry about the last response i’ve been high for the last 24 hours, but I don’t take it back.
A 3 year old child is 94 000 000 seconds old and has heard 35m words more than another less fortunate being, assuming the child is asleep 10 hours a day that’s a word every 1.6 seconds. Which is as much vacuous hot air as this post.