33 Bizarre and Shocking Stats That Will Change the Way You See the World Forever
If you’re in a group of twenty-three people, there’s a 50% chance that two of them share a birthday.
If you’re in a group of seventy people, that probability jumps to over 99%.
I found out at a conference last week that 5 billion people don’t have access to safe surgery.
It really shocked me. That’s 5 out of every 7 people in the world.
Til the world record for children born to one woman is 69. She had 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
Size-wise, a particle of dust is halfway between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
It takes roughly 170,000 years for photons from the Sun’s core to reach the convection zone of the photosphere where it is released out into space. In other words, the Sun light you see is hundreds of thousands of years old.
The population of Ireland has not yet recovered half-way from the famine of 150 years ago.
The immediate effects of the famine saw a great many people [perished] from starvation or disease and others emigrate 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.
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