Everybody knows that statistics can lie. And today, when any news can easily turn out to be fake, checking information for reliability is considered quite a serious work and in most cases is paid well.
But not always that sounds crazy is untrue. Here, see for yourself. All the facts below are absolutely truthful, although it is difficult to believe in some of them.
1. After September 11 on the US roads, there were 1600 deaths more than usual. Researchers believe this is due to the fact that people decided to avoid flights if possible. Ironically, travel by land transport was more dangerous.
2. The money spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would be enough to install solar cells in every house in the US.
3. Since 1960, the population of the Earth has doubled.
4. The reservation of Pine Ridge in South Dakota, in fact, is a third world country.
The average life expectancy of men here is 47 years, and this is the lowest figure in the entire western hemisphere. And the unemployment rate in this area reaches 80%. Most of the population of Pine Ridge lives without water, sewage or electricity. Among other things, the infant mortality rate is 5 times higher than the average for all of America.
5. Suicides - the most common cause of death of American soldiers.
6. There are more people in Bangladesh than in Russia. 156 million against 143 million people.
7. 20% of all mammals on the planet are bats (5000 mammal species have about 1000 species of bats).
8. The neutron star is so dense that if a jelly bear fell on its surface from a meter height, it would be torn to pieces by the force of thousands of nuclear explosions.
9. Wherever you go from the Mexican city of Los Algodones, you will go to the United States.
10. If the Sun suddenly became a supernova, it would trigger a flash a billion times brighter than when a hydrogen bomb exploded immediately in front of your face.
11. Two out of three Australians get skin cancer.
12. Every two days people generate as much information as has been created since the beginning of humanity's development until 2010 inclusive.
13. The average cloud weighs about 495 thousand kilograms (approximately as 100 elephants).
14. Samsung accounts for almost a quarter of the total GDP of South Korea.
15. Over the past 40 years, the Earth has lost 50% of its wildlife.
16. In America there are 3.5 million homeless people and 18.5 million empty houses.
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