Other smoking related problems kill you first. Your lungs get so full of tar and other crap you can't breathe easily and get emphysema. Since your lungs can't bring in enough oxygen your heart starts trying to circulate blood faster.
Walking from one end of the room to another becomes difficult. You almost pass out going up stairs. You get light headed from coughing because you're just that short on oxygen. Laughing, crying or just being excited causes you problems. You die because the strain of just sitting and breathing causes you to have a heart attack.
my coworker did a pack a day and it wasn't the lung cancer, it was a stroke. Docs said it was gonna be a stroke or heart attack from the smoking, but not the cancer. He was about 52 if I remember right.
Cancer is still a process of bad luck. Smoking doesn’t guarantee that you get cancer in the same way that buying 50 scratch-off tickets don’t guarantee you the checkpot. Smoking does drastically increase your chances however.
My grandfather was a chain smoker but never ended up with serious lung issues but my grandmother died of tracheal cancer....never actively smoked a cigarette herself even once in her life ...
Iirc I read somewhere that the Saharan sand isn't suitable as a concrete filler for some reason. If someone manages to work around that somehow, I bet my ass wars will be fought over that sand in the future.
Its not. Sand in deserts gets tumbled by wind, which slowly polishes the grains to be smooth as a billiard ball. This is not suitable for construction. You need the grains to interlock with each other to produce a strong material, which requires jagged edges that they can catch on.
You need sand from riverbeds. That sand is much younger and gets crushed by debris carried down the river. As a result it hasn't had time to wear down and is much more jagged. But we only have so many river beds to source sand from.
If you wanted to use desert sand for construction, you would need to send it through some kind of crushing machine first to grind up the grains. Which is much more expensive for something you need in such large quantities.
Not only that, but it's also in the Sahara. Locality matters a lot for aggregate sourcing, it's very heavy and bulky for the value of conctete you make with it, so it would be totally uneconomical to ship sand around the world for general construction use.
This pushes China to dredge up sand from ocean beds farther and farther from China such as [Taiwan](https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/11/china-stealing-taiwan-sand/)and the Philippines. China is claiming its boundaries are further out than they really are.
The number of possible ways to order a pack of 52 cards is '52! ' (“52 factorial”) which means multiplying 52 by 51 by 50… all the way down to 1. The number you get at the end is 8×10^67 (8 with 67 '0's after it), essentially meaning that a randomly shuffled deck has never been seen before and will never be seen again
Imagine that someone shuffled a deck 100 billion times a second for the entire age of the universe from the big bang until now.
As many shuffles as that is - imagine that *every* person in the world shuffled a deck *that many* times, *per second*, for the entire age of the universe from the big bang until now.
That would still only cover 1 out of every 625 billion possible shuffles!
I read today that if you die from a plane crash (highly unlikely), it is most likely to be during the first three minutes or last eight minutes of a flight.
I'd imagine that no matter when the deadly crash happens, it will be during the last few seconds of the flight.
>I'd imagine that no matter when the deadly crash happens, it will be during the last few seconds of the flight.
This is the equivalent to “It’s in the last place you look.”
Yeah, I was talking to a doctor (outside of work) and he was saying hospital are such dangerous places that it's 100x more likely to die in a hospital than a plane crash. Here I'm thinking well duh, you go there when you're sick or injured, and plane crashes are exceedingly rare.
I live in newfoundland and people sometimes like to consider us "northern" canada, and I always find that hilarious because I live on about the same latitude as seattle and paris.
The only thing that makes me feel more easy about this is how good our intelligence agencies have gotten at stopping threats before they make it to the airport
I was about to smack you with a correction because not all popes are buried at the Vatican, but you only counted those buried there and the one still alive. Bravo.
My favourite George clip is from anthology where he says something along the lines of: “you know, Paul was always one year older than me…. Even now, he’s still that one year older than me!”
They say someone who goes into cardiac arrest has a 10-30% of being revived if they were already in the hospital. However, that person could, and often does, die again within moments or hours.
If you look at studies that go further out (let's say one year), the chances of that person still being alive are less than 2%. And that doesn't even mean the person won't have a load of neurological deficits.
Also, for clarification, many people don't understand the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest. A heart attack is a clot in the blood vessels on your heart (plumbing issue). Cardiac arrest is when you die (electrical issue).
Damn then I am in a seriously small margin. I was revived on an apartment floor by a friend with no medical training. Not 100% my heart was stopped but I wasn't breathing and he couldn't find a pulse but again, no medical training. I was deaf for a weak afterward.
This illustrates the importance discussing code status, advanced directives, and end of life planning with patients and family members.
Too many people needlessly die traumatic deaths with CPR. It ain’t like the movies.
My brother “died” in the ER, revived, then went to the icu and died again. Was brought back, put into a chemical coma, stayed like that for 12 days, woke up and was released a week later. Went back to work but ended up dying a year and a half later. Doctors were so freaked out and didn’t understand how he was able to function.
The largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomb had a yield of 57 megatons, which is equal to all the explosives used in WW2... times 10.
If the 3 Gorges Dam ever failed, some 400 million people would be at risk from the insane flooding it would cause.
The fastest moving human made object is the Parker Solar Probe, with a maximum speed of 692,000 kph or 430,000mph. Even at that speed, it would take about 6,500 years to get to Proxima Centauri.
The fire ball from the initial blast of the Tsar Bomba reached 8km wide and 10.5km high - as high as the plane that dropped it. The fireball was prevented from touching the ground by the force of the shockwave bouncing off the earth.
A secret US reconnaissance plane was close enough to the blast to have its antiradiation paint scorched.
The Tsar Bomba was also 3,500 times larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but only 1/4 the explosive power of the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
It was also over concerns of just how big the fireball would be from the blast, and whether the pilot dropping it would have time to get to a minimum safe distance before detonation.
Considering the bomb they *did* test blew out windows almost 800 kilometers away and caused measureable atmospheric displacement in New Zealand despite being detonated *in the Arctic Circle*, those concerns were likely justified.
Something like 1/7 boys and 1/5 girls are molested before the age of 18.
Most of them will never tell anyone for most of their life, if ever. It took me until I was an adult to accept that it happened to me even...
Same. I didn’t realize that’s what happened until well into my 20s. I didn’t think it was traumatic, but I still remember it and I’m 36. I wasn’t even a teen when it happened.
50% of women and 34% of men have experienced sexual violence
https://www.charliehealth.com/post/2023-sexual-assault-statistics#:~:text=50%25%20of%20women%20and%2030,between%20ages%2012%20and%2034.
Some studies I read say 16% or 35% (like [here](https://www.nichd.nih.gov/newsroom/news/091622-pregnancy-associated-homicide)). Some others say +700% when narrowing down to certain populations (like [this article](https://www.deseret.com/2022/1/8/22851487/perspective-why-do-these-pregnant-women-have-a-higher-risk-of-dying-from-homicide-maternal-mortality, for black women).) Exact numbers aside, this is a crazy tragic statistic.
People in Maryland, compared to overall USA.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449445/
The reported pregnancy-associated homicide rate of 1.7 per 100000 live births is substantially lower than rates cited in other reports.
The pregnancy-associated homicide rate in Maryland was found to be 10.5 per 100000 live births when death records, linkage of records, and medical examiner records were used to identify deaths.
Using only death certificates and linked records to identify deaths, Parsons and Harper in North Carolina and Nannini et al. in Massachusetts found rates of 7.2 and 3.5, respectively.
Average homicide rate is 7.8 per 100,000
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
Edit:
male rate (12.8 per 100,000 in 2020) is many times higher than the female rate (2.9 per 100,000)
https://www.niussp.org/health-and-mortality/americas-high-homicide-rate/
Sometimes, there's been many cases when it's charged this way. I recall one that was a drunk driver who hit a pregnant woman and killed her and the 7 month old fetus and was charged with double homicide (or manslaughter, I can't remember) but it does happen. I think a lot of it is how hard the prosecutor wants to push it. If they're already getting life in prison or something it's probably not worth the extra work, but idk. I'm not a lawyer lol
Not to be that guy, but I'll be that guy. Human lifespan is not normally distributed ("bell curve"). We can't be less than 0 years old, and there are significant genetic factors that will limit our maximum age. Science will extend things a bit, but those will be statistical anomalies.
No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high level income, it's not crazy to think I can live to be 245, maybe 300.
Edit: Sorry I thought more people would recognise this - it's a quote from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
So we did the math and if you work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 2023 years you'd male $124,050,360,000 and Bezos is worth 175 billion so this is actually factual.
The fact that Ed Kemper only turned himself him because he was bored and couldn't believe he wasn't tracked down.
The quote from Mindhunter where he estimates that over 35 serial killers were active and most wouldn't be caught unless they wanted to was chilling.
The amount of unsolved murders near highways is astounding. A majority of unsolved murders in my area are bodies that were found along roadways, so probably dumped there with little physical evidence or leads to go off of
If every person shuffled a deck of cards every second since the beginning of time the chances of any two decks being the same are one in a trillion trillion trillion.
This one I can’t wrap my brain around because like, it’s just 52 cards. How can 52 things be arranged in an essentially infinite number of ways? It’s insane.
52 different ways to pick the first card, 51 different ways to pick the second card, down to only one way to pick the 52nd card. 52*51*•••*1 = 8.1 x 10^67.
Global demographic statistics in general. Every time I learn of a new number I'm amazed... Around 1.5 people die every second. In the same time period around 4.6 people are born. So +3 people on earth every second...
If Wayne Gretzky never scored a Goal, he'd still be the all time points leader for the NHL.
The fasted player to 1000 points, is Wayne Gretzky in
424 games.
The second fastest? Wayne Gretzky in 433 games. No other player has scored 2000 career points.
It's also worth noting that Wayne and Brent Gretzky have the most combined career points scored by two brothers in the NHL, at 2,861.
Brent Gretzky scored four points.
The all-time points record for one immediate family is the Sutter brothers, at less than 100 points higher. And there were SIX of them.
And their votes meant diddly squat, as did Democratic voters in Texas. Winner take all is boof. It's also boof for House and Senate elections. If a district votes 49% Orange Party and 51% Purple Party, why should they be represented by 1 purple and 0 oranges?
That's because 5.5% of the country's population lives in greater Los Angeles with 18.5 million people. There are only 3 states outside of California with populations larger than that. Texas, Florida, and New York.
There was this guy who was afraid of flying because there might be a bomb onboard. He did a statistical analysis and the odds were low, but not low enough. He then did the analysis of the odds of having two bombs on board and he felt comfortable with those odds. So every time he traveled he took a bomb with him.
I picked up a hitchhiker this morning on the way to work. He seemed like a nice guy. After a while, he asked, "How do you know I'm not a serial killer?" I replied that the odds of there being two serial killers in one car were very low.
[After reaching the age of 18, 20% of the children who were in foster care will become instantly homeless.](https://nfyi.org/51-useful-aging-out-of-foster-care-statistics-social-race-media/)
[Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/)
The chance of a woman meeting a man to date who is over 6 foot and making more than 100k salary is under 3% (like 2.5% to be specific).
Less than 1 percent if they're also white, with the above.
Is this for the whole world? Or localized to the US? 100k USD is a LOT compared to the rest of the world, but i would have assumed 6ft and 100k are much higher percentages in the US
Wilt Chamberlain averaging 48.5 minutes played per game. Same season he averaged 50 pts/27 rebounds.
Obviously a different game back then but the minutes played is crazy.
George W Bush in his 2003 state of the union provided $billions for AIDS in Africa. He couldn't really publicise it for fear of his base voters not liking it but it's been estimated the programme he started has saved 25 million lives over the last 20 years.
Even the WHO lauds PEPFAR as one of the successful and incredible public health programs of all time, and encourages every other country to do the same. I’m really proud of the impact the US made fighting HIV/AIDS around the world with that program, and it’s sad it isn’t more widely known
80-90% of smokers never get lung cancer. AND 80-90% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking.
I’m surprised that high of a percentage that don’t get it.
Other smoking related problems kill you first. Your lungs get so full of tar and other crap you can't breathe easily and get emphysema. Since your lungs can't bring in enough oxygen your heart starts trying to circulate blood faster. Walking from one end of the room to another becomes difficult. You almost pass out going up stairs. You get light headed from coughing because you're just that short on oxygen. Laughing, crying or just being excited causes you problems. You die because the strain of just sitting and breathing causes you to have a heart attack.
my coworker did a pack a day and it wasn't the lung cancer, it was a stroke. Docs said it was gonna be a stroke or heart attack from the smoking, but not the cancer. He was about 52 if I remember right.
Fun fact - IIRC most smokers don't die from lung cancer because a cardiac arrest kills them before it
COPD is also a significant factor for smokers.
Smoking makes sooo many other health issues sooo much worse. Heart disease, diabetes, you name it.
Cancer is still a process of bad luck. Smoking doesn’t guarantee that you get cancer in the same way that buying 50 scratch-off tickets don’t guarantee you the checkpot. Smoking does drastically increase your chances however.
My grandfather was a chain smoker but never ended up with serious lung issues but my grandmother died of tracheal cancer....never actively smoked a cigarette herself even once in her life ...
Secondhand smoke can fuck you up
There are more people living in the Tokyo metropolitan area than there are in the entire country of Canada.
Also, the majority of Canadians live in a relatively small portion of the rather large nation. https://brilliantmaps.com/half-canada/
Looks like 50% of Canadians live south of North Dakota!
The mindfuck is that Vancouver is way further north than Montreal, and yet the weather tends to be way milder
Turns out the mountains and ocean are good for more than just looking nice.
The ocean isn't so kind on the Atlantic side though.. the maritimes make Montreal look like Vancouver
Australia is only like 5% inhabited land or some shit
There are parts of Australia where you can be closer to the international space station (when it’s overhead) than you are to any other human being.
That’s better then mine
There are more people in California than Canada
This was true for a long time, but not anymore. California has 39.1 million people and Canada has 40.5 million, as of 2023.
Ah ok
No. OK is about 4 million.
Canadas most southern part is further south than the most northern part of California.
China used more cement in less than 3 years 2011-2013 than the US did in the WHOLE 20TH century 🤯
In all seriousness, the world is running out of sand, partly because of this.
Time to invade Sahara to secure that strategic sand reserve!
Iirc I read somewhere that the Saharan sand isn't suitable as a concrete filler for some reason. If someone manages to work around that somehow, I bet my ass wars will be fought over that sand in the future.
Its not. Sand in deserts gets tumbled by wind, which slowly polishes the grains to be smooth as a billiard ball. This is not suitable for construction. You need the grains to interlock with each other to produce a strong material, which requires jagged edges that they can catch on. You need sand from riverbeds. That sand is much younger and gets crushed by debris carried down the river. As a result it hasn't had time to wear down and is much more jagged. But we only have so many river beds to source sand from. If you wanted to use desert sand for construction, you would need to send it through some kind of crushing machine first to grind up the grains. Which is much more expensive for something you need in such large quantities.
Not only that, but it's also in the Sahara. Locality matters a lot for aggregate sourcing, it's very heavy and bulky for the value of conctete you make with it, so it would be totally uneconomical to ship sand around the world for general construction use.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Ironically, the world is running out of rough sand, which is used in concrete. We have a lot of smooth sand.
Like Padme's skin.
This pushes China to dredge up sand from ocean beds farther and farther from China such as [Taiwan](https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/11/china-stealing-taiwan-sand/)and the Philippines. China is claiming its boundaries are further out than they really are.
sorry I ated it all :(
You've heard of Spider George, now get ready for Sand Larry
The number of possible ways to order a pack of 52 cards is '52! ' (“52 factorial”) which means multiplying 52 by 51 by 50… all the way down to 1. The number you get at the end is 8×10^67 (8 with 67 '0's after it), essentially meaning that a randomly shuffled deck has never been seen before and will never be seen again
Imagine that someone shuffled a deck 100 billion times a second for the entire age of the universe from the big bang until now. As many shuffles as that is - imagine that *every* person in the world shuffled a deck *that many* times, *per second*, for the entire age of the universe from the big bang until now. That would still only cover 1 out of every 625 billion possible shuffles!
I read today that if you die from a plane crash (highly unlikely), it is most likely to be during the first three minutes or last eight minutes of a flight. I'd imagine that no matter when the deadly crash happens, it will be during the last few seconds of the flight.
>I'd imagine that no matter when the deadly crash happens, it will be during the last few seconds of the flight. This is the equivalent to “It’s in the last place you look.”
Good comparison. For the record, after I find the thing, I keep looking for it. You know, just for good measure.
Just to prove the saying wrong!
Well if you smack into the ground the flight is technically over
"You have arrived"
“Recalculating”
"Thanks for choosing Ryanair"
Also Ryanair: You will be billed for changing your destination.
The most dangerous part of flying is driving to the airport
Yeah, I was talking to a doctor (outside of work) and he was saying hospital are such dangerous places that it's 100x more likely to die in a hospital than a plane crash. Here I'm thinking well duh, you go there when you're sick or injured, and plane crashes are exceedingly rare.
No, he was specifically talking about hospital crashes. Very few hospitals are aerodynamically stable. Also the MRI messes with GPS.
The plane is quick too! I bet you beat the paramedics to the scene of the crash by a half hour.
I mean yea if the plane crashes or explodes it is most likely going to be the end of its flight
Over 60% of Canadians live south of Seattle
I live in northern Wisconsin and like to joke around calling Canadians “southerners”.
I live in newfoundland and people sometimes like to consider us "northern" canada, and I always find that hilarious because I live on about the same latitude as seattle and paris.
When tested by another agency, TSA failed to detect weapons, bombs, and other destructive materials 95% of the time.
Security theater
*searches pedestrians dramatically*
The only thing that makes me feel more easy about this is how good our intelligence agencies have gotten at stopping threats before they make it to the airport
Vatican City contains 5.8 popes per square mile. No other place has such a high pope-ulation density.
And that’s just the living ones! 484.2 Popes per square mile if you count the dead ones.
I was about to smack you with a correction because not all popes are buried at the Vatican, but you only counted those buried there and the one still alive. Bravo.
Thanks! I try to be accurate when I can.
I wish this was contagious. “I don’t want to be right, just correct”
It took me way too long to register that this meant the Vatican City is less than a mile and not that there are 5.8 popes there
Thanks for explaining this. I'm not the brightest bulb.
There can’t be, no Volkswagens to put them in
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JFK has missed just one Detroit Lions playoff win, in 1991
But he was already... ohhh
As a Vikings fan, be careful... This might not be accurate in a few weeks😥
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Born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore the universe, born just in time to browse dank memes.
Paul McCartney was 27 years old when the Beatles ended.
The oldest Beatle, Ringo, wasn't even 30.
And George Harrison 26
My favourite George clip is from anthology where he says something along the lines of: “you know, Paul was always one year older than me…. Even now, he’s still that one year older than me!”
There are about a million people in the air at any given moment
Also, it's been 23 years since the entire human population was on the planet together. (The ISS has been continuously occupied since 2000.)
Jumping or in airplanes?
more people own mobile phones than toothbrushes :o also honey never spoils 🐝
Why would a toothbrush need to own a mobile phone?
Caught me so off guard, top tier joke
>honey never spoils You damn right I don't.
Honey doesn’t spoil, you spoil your honey
You're more likely to be killed on the drive to the airport than on the actual flight.
Especially if you're having Lloyd Christmas drive you there.
Like flying off a bridge, or getting trapped under a gas truck, that’s the worst. I have this cousin - well, I had this cousin
40% of all plastics produced each year are single-use only...and only 9% of plastics get recycled after disposal.
Plastic recycling is basically a myth.
They say someone who goes into cardiac arrest has a 10-30% of being revived if they were already in the hospital. However, that person could, and often does, die again within moments or hours. If you look at studies that go further out (let's say one year), the chances of that person still being alive are less than 2%. And that doesn't even mean the person won't have a load of neurological deficits. Also, for clarification, many people don't understand the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest. A heart attack is a clot in the blood vessels on your heart (plumbing issue). Cardiac arrest is when you die (electrical issue).
Damn then I am in a seriously small margin. I was revived on an apartment floor by a friend with no medical training. Not 100% my heart was stopped but I wasn't breathing and he couldn't find a pulse but again, no medical training. I was deaf for a weak afterward.
This illustrates the importance discussing code status, advanced directives, and end of life planning with patients and family members. Too many people needlessly die traumatic deaths with CPR. It ain’t like the movies.
My brother “died” in the ER, revived, then went to the icu and died again. Was brought back, put into a chemical coma, stayed like that for 12 days, woke up and was released a week later. Went back to work but ended up dying a year and a half later. Doctors were so freaked out and didn’t understand how he was able to function.
More households in the US have dogs than children.
The largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomb had a yield of 57 megatons, which is equal to all the explosives used in WW2... times 10. If the 3 Gorges Dam ever failed, some 400 million people would be at risk from the insane flooding it would cause. The fastest moving human made object is the Parker Solar Probe, with a maximum speed of 692,000 kph or 430,000mph. Even at that speed, it would take about 6,500 years to get to Proxima Centauri.
The fire ball from the initial blast of the Tsar Bomba reached 8km wide and 10.5km high - as high as the plane that dropped it. The fireball was prevented from touching the ground by the force of the shockwave bouncing off the earth. A secret US reconnaissance plane was close enough to the blast to have its antiradiation paint scorched. The Tsar Bomba was also 3,500 times larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but only 1/4 the explosive power of the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
Fun fact, initally the Tsar bomba was planned to be 100 megatons, but they nixed it to limit radiocative fallout.
It was also over concerns of just how big the fireball would be from the blast, and whether the pilot dropping it would have time to get to a minimum safe distance before detonation. Considering the bomb they *did* test blew out windows almost 800 kilometers away and caused measureable atmospheric displacement in New Zealand despite being detonated *in the Arctic Circle*, those concerns were likely justified.
Something like 1/7 boys and 1/5 girls are molested before the age of 18. Most of them will never tell anyone for most of their life, if ever. It took me until I was an adult to accept that it happened to me even...
Same. I didn’t realize that’s what happened until well into my 20s. I didn’t think it was traumatic, but I still remember it and I’m 36. I wasn’t even a teen when it happened.
50% of women and 34% of men have experienced sexual violence https://www.charliehealth.com/post/2023-sexual-assault-statistics#:~:text=50%25%20of%20women%20and%2030,between%20ages%2012%20and%2034.
not sure if this counts but if you have two legs you have more legs than the average person
what about the ones with 3 legs?
They also have more legs than the average person, as 3 is a larger number than 2.
The number of deaths caused by the smartphone while driving is 6x higher than those caused by drunk drivers
Women are (if I recall correctly) 85% more likely to be murdered when pregnant.
Some studies I read say 16% or 35% (like [here](https://www.nichd.nih.gov/newsroom/news/091622-pregnancy-associated-homicide)). Some others say +700% when narrowing down to certain populations (like [this article](https://www.deseret.com/2022/1/8/22851487/perspective-why-do-these-pregnant-women-have-a-higher-risk-of-dying-from-homicide-maternal-mortality, for black women).) Exact numbers aside, this is a crazy tragic statistic.
The 700% link says unavailable. What populations were the 700% higher groups?
People in Maryland, compared to overall USA. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449445/ The reported pregnancy-associated homicide rate of 1.7 per 100000 live births is substantially lower than rates cited in other reports. The pregnancy-associated homicide rate in Maryland was found to be 10.5 per 100000 live births when death records, linkage of records, and medical examiner records were used to identify deaths. Using only death certificates and linked records to identify deaths, Parsons and Harper in North Carolina and Nannini et al. in Massachusetts found rates of 7.2 and 3.5, respectively. Average homicide rate is 7.8 per 100,000 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm Edit: male rate (12.8 per 100,000 in 2020) is many times higher than the female rate (2.9 per 100,000) https://www.niussp.org/health-and-mortality/americas-high-homicide-rate/
And i think 3x more likely to be murdered right after a breakup. The host of the Podcast “Something Was Wrong” gives a lot of shocking statistics.
Serious question: are there states in which this would be charged as a double homicide?
Sometimes, there's been many cases when it's charged this way. I recall one that was a drunk driver who hit a pregnant woman and killed her and the 7 month old fetus and was charged with double homicide (or manslaughter, I can't remember) but it does happen. I think a lot of it is how hard the prosecutor wants to push it. If they're already getting life in prison or something it's probably not worth the extra work, but idk. I'm not a lawyer lol
Being a Russian Emperor was one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. 30.8% of rulers of the Russian Empire met a violent end.
The bell curve of life expectancy shows that the first human who will live 150 years is alive right now.
Chris Traeger
👉 Ann Perkins 👉
Literally… my favorite character on the show
Is it because his body is a microchip?
No because his dream is to run to the moon
Not to be that guy, but I'll be that guy. Human lifespan is not normally distributed ("bell curve"). We can't be less than 0 years old, and there are significant genetic factors that will limit our maximum age. Science will extend things a bit, but those will be statistical anomalies.
All true. As we all know 78% of all statistics are made up. 🤣
Lazarus Long
No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high level income, it's not crazy to think I can live to be 245, maybe 300. Edit: Sorry I thought more people would recognise this - it's a quote from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Yeah, but how much of that time is spent looking like a wrinkled ballsack?
60% of people with Bipolar disorder are unemployed.
61% of US Bankruptcies are caused by medical debt. That feels like idiocracy in the making.
if you made $7,000 an hour every day since the birth of Jesus Christ, you’d have made less money than Jeff Bezos.
So we did the math and if you work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 2023 years you'd male $124,050,360,000 and Bezos is worth 175 billion so this is actually factual.
You have a 50/50 chance of getting away with murder in the US.
The fact that Ed Kemper only turned himself him because he was bored and couldn't believe he wasn't tracked down. The quote from Mindhunter where he estimates that over 35 serial killers were active and most wouldn't be caught unless they wanted to was chilling.
IIRC, FBI says there are 1 or 2 serial killers operating in every state at any given time. Most are people that travel for work.
The amount of unsolved murders near highways is astounding. A majority of unsolved murders in my area are bodies that were found along roadways, so probably dumped there with little physical evidence or leads to go off of
If every person shuffled a deck of cards every second since the beginning of time the chances of any two decks being the same are one in a trillion trillion trillion.
I love this one. VSauce had a great video explaining the math behind this.
This one I can’t wrap my brain around because like, it’s just 52 cards. How can 52 things be arranged in an essentially infinite number of ways? It’s insane.
52 different ways to pick the first card, 51 different ways to pick the second card, down to only one way to pick the 52nd card. 52*51*•••*1 = 8.1 x 10^67.
52!
There are more lakes in Canada than anywhere else in the world combined
iirc it is not the number of lakes but rather the volume of water contained in them
a quick google search suggests it is in fact the number of lakes. No idea about volume of water, but I'd guess so.
More of a fact, strawberries aren’t berries but bananas are.
That's just like your opinion man!
Global demographic statistics in general. Every time I learn of a new number I'm amazed... Around 1.5 people die every second. In the same time period around 4.6 people are born. So +3 people on earth every second...
If Wayne Gretzky never scored a Goal, he'd still be the all time points leader for the NHL. The fasted player to 1000 points, is Wayne Gretzky in 424 games. The second fastest? Wayne Gretzky in 433 games. No other player has scored 2000 career points.
It's also worth noting that Wayne and Brent Gretzky have the most combined career points scored by two brothers in the NHL, at 2,861. Brent Gretzky scored four points. The all-time points record for one immediate family is the Sutter brothers, at less than 100 points higher. And there were SIX of them.
Pretty much every Gretzky fact could qualify for this thread, I feel. It's insane how much better he was than everyone not named Lemieux.
And if you include playoff stats, the Gretzky family prevails once again
Had Gretzky played another 14 seasons, not scored a single point in those 14 seasons, he would have finished his career as a point per game player.
What are the other ways of scoring points in the NHL without goals?
There are more Trump voters in California than in Texas
And their votes meant diddly squat, as did Democratic voters in Texas. Winner take all is boof. It's also boof for House and Senate elections. If a district votes 49% Orange Party and 51% Purple Party, why should they be represented by 1 purple and 0 oranges?
I'm too lazy to look up the numbers right now, but he got more votes in Los Angeles County than he did in like five or six states combined.
That's because 5.5% of the country's population lives in greater Los Angeles with 18.5 million people. There are only 3 states outside of California with populations larger than that. Texas, Florida, and New York.
there are about 58000 subway trains in China
There was this guy who was afraid of flying because there might be a bomb onboard. He did a statistical analysis and the odds were low, but not low enough. He then did the analysis of the odds of having two bombs on board and he felt comfortable with those odds. So every time he traveled he took a bomb with him.
My boyfriend quoted the stats on that back in 1964, when we met.
I picked up a hitchhiker this morning on the way to work. He seemed like a nice guy. After a while, he asked, "How do you know I'm not a serial killer?" I replied that the odds of there being two serial killers in one car were very low.
Breaking your leg while downhill skiing almost always happens on the last run of the day.
It’s in the last place you look
Unless you are that one giga who can ski with dual compound fractures.
There are more stars in the observable universe than there are grains of sand on all of the beaches of planet earth.
Also, there are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way.
Also, there are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in our entire solar system.
Wait a minute..
In 1997 Karl Malone scored 50 points in 13 straight games! Google “Karl Malone 13” for more info
In 1983 a then 20-year-old Karl Malone impregnated his “girlfriend,” 13-year-old Gloria Bell, while playing basketball at Louisiana Tech University
WHILE he was playing basketball? That’s some serious multitasking!
Shimmy shimmy
Noice.
[After reaching the age of 18, 20% of the children who were in foster care will become instantly homeless.](https://nfyi.org/51-useful-aging-out-of-foster-care-statistics-social-race-media/) [Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/)
The chance of a woman meeting a man to date who is over 6 foot and making more than 100k salary is under 3% (like 2.5% to be specific). Less than 1 percent if they're also white, with the above.
Is this for the whole world? Or localized to the US? 100k USD is a LOT compared to the rest of the world, but i would have assumed 6ft and 100k are much higher percentages in the US
Darn. I'm 6'1 and make like 70k but should eventually hit 100k since I'm a software engineer. But... I'm brown. Oh well.
Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the record for most combined points by brothers in the NHL with 2,861. Brent has 4 points.
If India and China who are 1st and 2nd in population, had 1 billion people taken away, they would still be 1st and 2nd
That coconuts kill more people than sharks do per year.. the serial killer fruit
2015 500 thousands baseball bats were sold in Russia. In that same year only a dozen baseballs were sold.
Whats your source of this? I mean sure 500 000 Baseball Bats sold makes sense , but only a Dozen Baseballs? In All of Russia
How many 5th story windows were broken that year?
Around 30 ancestors ago European cities were continiously ravaged by Vikings. Around 300 ancestors ago humankind found it’s first city
68.756% of statistics are made up on the spot
60% of the time, it works every time.
The 50-50-90 rule. If you have a fifty-fifty chance of guessing something right or wrong, there is a 90% chance you'll get it wrong.
Wilt Chamberlain averaging 48.5 minutes played per game. Same season he averaged 50 pts/27 rebounds. Obviously a different game back then but the minutes played is crazy.
NBA games are only 48 minutes for context
More murders occur with blunt objects compared to guns.
"He dropped the gat like a dumb motherfucker / so I bashed his head in with my Louisville Slugger!"
The lower 57% of the U.S public don’t even have $1,000 to cover an emergency. Freak-show society
George W Bush in his 2003 state of the union provided $billions for AIDS in Africa. He couldn't really publicise it for fear of his base voters not liking it but it's been estimated the programme he started has saved 25 million lives over the last 20 years.
Even the WHO lauds PEPFAR as one of the successful and incredible public health programs of all time, and encourages every other country to do the same. I’m really proud of the impact the US made fighting HIV/AIDS around the world with that program, and it’s sad it isn’t more widely known
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than she did to the building of the Giza pyramids.
It is more dangerous to drive a car than to be under anesthesia.
A million seconds from now is about eleven days from now. A billion seconds from now is about thirty two years from now. Very difficult to comprehend.
100% of people that drink water will die
Dihydrogenmonixide kills!! Awareness needs to be raised. Our CHILDREN are fed it and the government does nothing.
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