20 Of The Most Interesting Yet Random Statistics That Have Ever Been Shared Online

If you love learning new things then this post is right up your alley.

Daphnie

• Published in Interesting
• June 30, 2022

Learning is something that we do every single day whether you're in school or not. There are a lot of different ways that you can learn and in today's age, the internet is one of them.

We learn from the internet every day and there are people who spend their time researching and teaching us about what they're learning. A great example of this is when we hear about statistics that are shared with us, especially some of the weirdest statistics.

There are a lot of odd things that can be learned and we're here to share with you the top interesting statistics that were shared on the internet. Some of these are so odd that we wonder how people even found out about this statistic or why they were so interested in learning about it.

We're here to take advantage of others' interests by finding some weird information online that either may actually be useful or may not be useful at all. Whether you love learning in a school setting, or just by browsing the internet and Googling anything you want to know, there is something for everyone in this article.

Let's dive into these very weird statistics.

1. Let's see how many of you double check the facts you'll learn in this post.

"93% of people don’t check facts they read on the internet."

2. This kind of goes hand in hand with the last one.

"67% of statistics are made up"

3. This is actually more common than you might think.

"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."

4. This doesn't even sound like it can be done.

"Genghis Khan killed so many people that he cooled the earth by a bit."

5. Well I mean what can you expect?

"Communism has worked 0% of the times it was tried."

6. This is a very sad statistic that really needs to be taken into consideration.

"There have been 288 mass shootings at schools since 2009 in the USA. The country with the next highest amount has………….. 8. To be clear they have 2.7% of the mass shootings at school that we do.

Which does not count Pulse in Orlando, the Vegas Strip shooting, etc."

7. This is a fact that I didn't necessarily need to k now but it's cool.

"The human eye blinks about 4.2 million times a year on average"

8. This is absolutely ridiculous honestly. How can one man be worth that much?

"If you made $295,000 every single day since the birth of Christ, you still wouldn’t be worth what Elon Musk is.

Edit: Let’s put the same concept into seconds. If you were to do a conversion of dollars to seconds ($1 = 1 second), the median American gets 1 day and 10 hours (net worth of $121,760).

Elon musk would get 6,910 YEARS."

9. This makes sense to me so I believe this statistic, Honestly I'm surprised the percentage isn't higher.

"34 percent of adults and 75 percent of children sleep with a stuffed animal or a blanket, or other sentimental object as their comfort object."

10. I believe this one too.

"Despite making up less than 4% of the population, Americans produce over 20% of the garbage in the world."

11. It's definitely more statistically proven that seatbelts save lives.

"Less than 10% of Americans do not wear seatbelts and account for 51% of car related fatalities.

Wear your seatbelt. Ignore your friend who told you “My buddy’s cousin would’ve died if he was wearing his seatbelt!”

12. I've heard this before too and this is just so wild to me because I need to know why.

"Innocent people will admit to a crime they never committed 43% of the time."

13. This is wild.

"That the remains found in Machu Picchu are 80% female."

14. It's crazy to me that some people are completely uninterested in space.

"48% of British people wouldn’t go to space even if their safety was guaranteed with the most popular reason being that they just simply didn’t have any interest in going"

15. They look so harmless though.

"Dragonflies have a 95% hunt success rate. Making them the most effective hunters in the world."

16. This has got to be the most interesting statistic that we've read this whole post so far.

"That belly button bacteria study was wild. 60 belly buttons sampled.

2368 different species of bacteria found. The study indicated that 1458 of them may be new to science.

One had a rare bacteria found in Japanese soil and they had never been to Japan. Two had rare bacteria that thrived on ice caps and thermal vents.

Not a single bacteria was common to all buttons."

17. I need to know why there are so many though.

"There are more Panda Express restaurants than actual Pandas"

18. Bats are such weird and mysterious creatures.

"20% of the mammal species on our planet are different types of bats.

There’s about 5000 species of mammals, and about 1000 of them are varieties of our little winged buddies."

19. I mean it's kind of a hard thing to admit to.

"70% of the german population believe that their ancestors during WW2 helped jewish escapees or didn’t support/partake in the actions performed by the nazis."

20. Here's a statistic that we should all be paying attention to.

"There are more privately owned guns than people in the U.S. (Washington Post June 19, 2018)"

Honestly, these statistics were extremely interesting and we learned a lot about random things after reading them. We hope that you gained a little bit more knowledge and have some new and interesting facts to share with your friends.

Let us know if you have any other crazy or odd statistics to share.

Daphnie