Silly Statistics - Ends 21st June

[Sloths]

Well did you know that humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year?! Some random stats I learnt while writing my speech are so silly you wouldn't believe they were true. Imagine who counted that!

What I want you to do though is find me a silly statistic like mine above. They must be true though, I will check!

May the silliest win!

Prize: 5 credits + 10 rep

[CatFlaps]

Did you know that someone gets divorced every 10 to 13 minutes!?

[Matt]

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... Even your heart.

and ...

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

[Ekelektra]

About 100 people die on average every year, from choking on a ball point pen.

This is worrying if you chew on pens in class like me ;O

[Succubus]

About 100 people die on average every year, from choking on a ball point pen.

This is worrying if you chew on pens in class like me ;O

You wouldn't believe how I read that wrong..

OT:

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die

I just looked that up ....

[garriet]

the heart pumps over 48 million gallons of blood in a lifetime, which is enough to fill more than 2,000 average-sized in-ground swimming pools

[LiquidLuck.]

I got to know so many new facts in my search for the perfect one, like:

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughtout the world!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning!
There are more plastic flamingos in the USA than real ones!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate!
Termites ear through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music!
If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it!

But the two I found to be the silliest were:

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
More people are killed by donkeys annuyally than are killed in plane crashes.

[Xedia]

On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute
&
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

[-Amyy]

More than 10 people a year are killed by vending machines

[MKR&*42]

69% of people can find something sexual in every sentence . I kid.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime. < LOOL.
In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.

For the last one, that number is 168 octillion, 518 septillion, 829 sextillion, 100 quintillion, 544 quadrillion moves.