Other Useless Facts:
? Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.
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? In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
? 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 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 odds of being killed in a car are about 1 in 100.
But how do your odds change if you’re in the United States, versus say, Bangladesh?
According to a new infographic by Infrastructurist, you’re actually safer if you’re in a richer country.
Yet just 10 nations are responsible for the majority of the world’s traffic accident-related deaths — including the U.S.
The infographic pulls several interesting statistics about traffic fatalities. For example, did you know that auto accidents are expected to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030?
That’s ahead of diabetes, lung cancer and AIDS.
See the full infographic.
[via GOOD]
