35 People Are Sharing The Craziest And Most Disturbing Stats They Know

If you were to compress earth’s existence into a 24 hour day, life would first appear at 4am, plants would first appear at 10pm, dinosaurs from about 11pm-11:40pm, and humans emerge at 11:59pm.

From Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”

You are more likely to be bitten by a stranger in New York City than by a shark anywhere else in the nation.

You are more likely to be killed by a vending machine than by a shark.

What we can learn from this is that strange vending machines in NYC should be avoided at all cost

That the Catholic Church hid a (now self) reported 8.4 child rapes per day for over 71 years.

That there are A LOT more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people.

The average person is a 28 year old Chinese man

40% of homeless are employed.

The top 10% of drinkers account 60% of all alcohol consumed in the US. And they drink the equivalent of 74 drinks per week.

So the entire alcoholic beverages industry is kept alive by severe alcoholics.

One third of adults still sleep with a comfort object

There is more actual lemon in Lemon Pledge cleaner than there is in Country Time lemonade

More first responders and survivors have now died due to 9/11 related illnesses than the number lost at Ground Zero on the day of the attack. The number will continue to rise because of the huge amount of health problems caused by the dust and smoke that everyone in the surrounding areas inhaled when/after the towers fell.

The U.S government has 'misplaced' six thermonuclear warheads. They were either lost or stolen in transit and at this juncture, one of the largest nuclear superpowers in the world has no idea where they are.

It is estimated that bears kill over two million salmon a year. Attacks by salmon on bears are much more rare.

The most common cause of death for pregnant women is homicide

40% of cops are domestic abusers

86% of British people live within 8 miles from where they were born.

Sharks predate trees by 100 million years…

There are more combinations in a 52 deck of cards than stars in the known universe.

39% of the world's population is overweight and that number is only getting "bigger"

If you were born in 1923 in the Soviet Union as a male, you would have an 80% chance of dying in world war II.

In the US, you are more likely to be killed by a cow than you are to be killed by a coyote.