Interesting Statistics

[tgpo]

S T A T I S T I C S



>> At -40 degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.



>> One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.



>> In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.



>> There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.



>> If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.



>> Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.



>> The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.



>> There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.



>> The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.



>> More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.



>> Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.



>> The most common name in the world is Mohammed.



>> More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.



>> The only 2 days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.



>> Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.



>> The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.



>> You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.



>> It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.



>> The tip of a 1/3-inch long hour hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 miles per hour.



>> One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!



>> A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.



>> A hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.



>> Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.



>> It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.



>> During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.



>> 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and dung.



>> Less than 1% of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air; respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.



>> The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.



>> It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris, France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years.



>> The most expensive commercial ever made is one of the most famous. The "1984" Apple Macintosh commercial shown introducing Macintosh to the world ran only once during the 1984 Super Bowl. It was directed by Ridley Scott, and cost around $600,000 to $1 million to make.



>> The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.



>> About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas.



>> Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.



>> The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).



>> No president of the United States was an only child.



>> The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.



>> The average person swallows 8 spiders a year.



>> It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.



>> $26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.



>> You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.



>> On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.



>> There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.



>> Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.



>> Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million.



>> Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.



>> Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.



>> Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.



>> Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.



>> Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.



>> Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.



>> Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million.



>> Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million.



>> If you played all of the Beatles' singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back to back, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes.



>> Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.



>> The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.



>> 13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.



>> There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.



>> About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.



>> The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.



>> The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.



>> The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.



>> Skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even on the hottest days.



>> 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.



>> Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.



>> Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.



>> The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.



>> Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.



>> Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.



>> Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.



>> If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.



>> 1/3 of all cancers are sun related.



>> The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.



>> There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.



>> It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.



>> The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.



>> The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.



>> Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.



>> A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.



>> If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).



>> The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.



>> There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.



>> In a century's time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world.



>> In 75% of Americans households, women manage the money and pay the bills.



>> The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.



>> Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 166 or older.



>> The world record for rain boot tossing is 179.14 feet (54.60 m).



>> Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.



>> Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.



>> More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.



>> 1/4 of the bones in your body is in your feet.



>> Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.



>> You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.



>> There are 1,525,000,000 miles (2,453,725,000 km) of telephone wire strung across America.



>> Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.



>> If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.



>> The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.



>> The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.



>> The average person laughs 15 times a day.



>> It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.



>> The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.



>> When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles (4827 km) per hour.



>> The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.



>> In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.



>> From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral "0" has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, Mckinley 2, etc). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this "curse." If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the "curse" was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.


>>Apple Computers are only used by 1.5%of all computer users and make up less than .5% of all computers ever built. At this rate they will go the way of the dodo birds in around 4-6 years.

[holistic]

Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.

Actually it was Gordon Moore who made this observation (circa 1965)

The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.

CURRENT ??.....old stats apparently.
Given that info above ,why did 99% (my stats) of the idiots on this planet celebrate the NEW millennium at the end of 1999 when in fact it really ended Dec31 2000.


47.67 % of stats are just meaningless numbers :P

Intresting read though .

[BJ_M]

>> The most expensive commercial ever made is one of the most famous. The "1984" Apple Macintosh commercial shown introducing Macintosh to the world ran only once during the 1984 Super Bowl. It was directed by Ridley Scott, and cost around $600,000 to $1 million to make.

it cost $900,000 to make and $800,000 to air (a bargin by todays standards) - BUT , it ran more than once (a little known fact) .... full detailed info on this ad (and the 30sec version (very rare) ) here http://www.isd.net/cmcalone/cine/1984.html

including the AD's and a behind the scenes making of

[BJ_M]

interisting read -but i found many of these to be not true upon further checking ...

[Conquest10]

>> From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral "0" has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, Mckinley 2, etc). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this "curse." If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the "curse" was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.

Its a shame Ronny broke it.

[indolikaa]

Its a shame Ronny broke it.

Dude. What kind of shame spiral is that?

[rkr1958]

>> Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 166 or older.

NO WAY!!! ... Name ONE Person to ever reach that age (I don't count anyone listed in Genesis).

[gmatov]

Rkr,

That was a mistake and a repost of "116 or older", way up at the top of the list.

Indolikaa,

I thought the figure was 87.67%. I'm 93% sure of that.

A couple other things, 31 or 48, or 82%, are hooey.

Tgpo,

I thought you were still in school. You better take some extra courses.You have waaayyyy too much time on your hands.

Fun, anyway.

Cheers,

George

[tgpo]

Tgpo,

I thought you were still in school. You better take some extra courses.You have waaayyyy too much time on your hands.

I am. I just copied and pasted those here. We didn't have school this week because of a huge ice storm. Half of the city was without power tuesday and wednesday. Some didn't get it back until yesturday.

[gmatov]

Well, since you'll be out of school while this cold part of the 11 year hot-cold cycle is still in the cold stage, jump on a soapbox and put those kids who got out of school 5 years ago in their place.

Seems like the kids, the activists or the scientific types who graduate in the middle of the warm winter part of the cycle start screaming "Global Warming", and those who graduate in the cold part scream "Global Cooling".

Both insist that screwing up the ozone layer is the cause. Both insist that the "Greenhouse Gases" are either keeping heat in or keeping heat out of the atmosphere, ionosphere, whatever.

You have huge ice storms down there now? Not normal? Wait'll next year. 93, 94 was when we had 2 foot plus snowfalls, definitely not the norm, except for every 11 years.

Buy a couple trucks with snowplows and salt spreaders, you'll make a killing. When I was stationed down there in the 60's, snow fell, roads froze, they didn't know what the hell to do. No equipment to handle this rare, cold white stuff.

Have fun,and make a buck, too.

Cheers,

George

I know you copy/pasted that stuff. Read Guiness, the old one, not the picture book, amazing, what all you can find in there.

The other Guiness, or maybe just a beer book, says that Guiness stipulates no more than a 5/8 inch head on their beer, a far cry from everybody else who say you need half a glass of foam for true satisfaction. Yeah, the bar owner's satisfaction, same as those who sell 1/2 litres of water for 3 bucks a pop.

A little off topic? Sorry.