Stats that blow your mind....

[El Presidente]

Post them as you come across them.👍

 

 

 

"The top 100 podcasts in the world account for 80% of global plays"

 

that is 100 shows out of 4000,000

[StogieLoki]

Sam Harris’ “Making Sense” podcast is pretty thought-provoking. Not sure where he lays on the spectrum of those 4 million shows lol

[JohnS]

Baseball is a game that is full of statistics. Frankly, no-one needs them to know that Shohei Ohtani is a once-in-a-lifetime player. And I'm not even a Dodgers fan. So there you go. You definitely did not hear this here first! 

[RDB]

There are now twice as many humans in the world as there were 50 years ago. That’s four billion more of us today.

[Fuzz]

There are more permutations in a standard deck of cards than there are the estimated number of atoms on Earth.

[MrBirdman]

59 minutes ago, RDB said:

There are now twice as many humans in the world as there were 50 years ago. That’s four billion more of us today.

And at one point in prehistory the breeding population of humans was down to fewer than 2,000 individuals. 

[Fuzz]

7 minutes ago, MrBirdman said:

And at one point in prehistory the breeding population of humans was down to fewer than 2,000 individuals. 

Cue the banjos.

[JoeyBones777]

15 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Post them as you come across them.👍

 

 

 

"The top 100 podcasts in the world account for 80% of global plays"

 

that is 100 shows out of 4000,000

The pareto principle strikes again.

[Cigar Surgeon]

Fewer than 10% of Americans do not wear seatbelts, and they account for 51% of car related fatalities.

[RDB]

5 hours ago, MrBirdman said:

And at one point in prehistory the breeding population of humans was down to fewer than 2,000 individuals. 

At one point there were presumably just a handful of Homo Sapiens Sapiens! And in a similar vein: we all share a common ancestor, estimated to have lived around 200,000 years ago.

The thing I find crazy about the original statistic I quoted is that I am 50 next month. So there are twice as many people in the world now, compared to when I was born in 1974.

[Ford2112]

"I'm about to give you one of my all-time favorite statistics: Rickey Henderson walked 796 times in his career LEADING OFF AN INNING. Think about this again. There would be nothing, absolutely nothing, a pitcher would want to avoid more than walking Rickey Henderson to lead off an inning. And yet he walked SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY SIX times to lead off an inning. He walked more times just leading off in an inning than Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Kirby Puckett, Ryne Sandberg and more than 50 other Hall of Famers walked in their entire careers ... I simply cannot imagine a baseball statistic more staggering.^{[108]" -Joe Posnansky SI}

[Tunkat92]

8 hours ago, Fuzz said:

There are more permutations in a standard deck of cards than there are the estimated number of atoms on Earth.

To make put that into perspective…there are more atoms in a Tablespoon of water than seconds that have existed since the big bang. So it is most likely that every order a playing card deck can be shuffled hasn’t existed yet.

[JoeyBones777]

39 minutes ago, Ford2112 said:

"I'm about to give you one of my all-time favorite statistics: Rickey Henderson walked 796 times in his career LEADING OFF AN INNING. Think about this again. There would be nothing, absolutely nothing, a pitcher would want to avoid more than walking Rickey Henderson to lead off an inning. And yet he walked SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY SIX times to lead off an inning. He walked more times just leading off in an inning than Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Kirby Puckett, Ryne Sandberg and more than 50 other Hall of Famers walked in their entire careers ... I simply cannot imagine a baseball statistic more staggering.^{[108]" -Joe Posnansky SI}

How many bases did he steal off those walks? 🤔

[JohnS]

I can't get my head around how Rickey Henderson stole 130 bases in 1982. Seriously, how many bases would he steal nowadays with the change in rules making basestealing easier?

[Ford2112]

Fastest player I ever saw.

[MrBirdman]

There are also more stars in the visible universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches and in all the deserts of earth put together. 

[Li Bai]

43% of airplane pilots admit to regularly fall asleep midflight 😅

[westg]

Just now, Li Bai said:

43% of airplane pilots admit to regularly fall asleep midflight 😅

That would be Virgin pilots 

[Li Bai]

If you're in a room with 70 people there is a 99,99% chance that two of them share the same birthday.

[BrightonCorgi]

Per CoPilot:

 

Eddy Merckx, often regarded as one of the greatest cyclists of all time, won approximately 35% of the races he entered during his peak years from 1969 to 1975.

Over his entire professional career, which spanned from 1965 to 1978, he recorded 445 victories in 1,585 races.

[joeypots]

George Harrison was 27 years of age when the Beatles broke up.

[Chibearsv]

18 hours ago, Ford2112 said:

"I'm about to give you one of my all-time favorite statistics: Rickey Henderson walked 796 times in his career LEADING OFF AN INNING. Think about this again. There would be nothing, absolutely nothing, a pitcher would want to avoid more than walking Rickey Henderson to lead off an inning. And yet he walked SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY SIX times to lead off an inning. He walked more times just leading off in an inning than Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Kirby Puckett, Ryne Sandberg and more than 50 other Hall of Famers walked in their entire careers ... I simply cannot imagine a baseball statistic more staggering.^{[108]" -Joe Posnansky SI}

In fairness to those pitchers, didn't he lead the league in lead-off homers as well?

[Puros Y Vino]

9/10 Doctors recommended Lucky Strike brand cigarettes. 😁

[Chas.Alpha]

The average American generates 4.48 pounds of trash daily.

[Chas.Alpha]

Of the 30 fastest 100 meter sprint times, 21 were run by athletes who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.

 

The other 9 were Usain Bolt.