Silly Statistics!

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Mark Twain is famous for having said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”

Well, just to prove you can have a bit of fun with statistics have a look at this set of nonsense that came to me in an email a while ago.

They are a complete reversal of the usual figures which continually highlight the increasing world population and the problems that will cause in the future.

These numbers look at the world if it was scaled down to just one hundred people.

It might make you think or it might not.

But it is a new way of looking at population statistics, so I hope you enjoy them anyway.

If The World

Was Scaled Down

To Only 100 People

SEVEN

would have a college degree

TWENTY-TWO

would own a computer

TWENTY-SIX

would be children

THIRTEEN

of those children would live in poverty

SEVENTY-FOUR

would be adults

EIGHT

of those adults would be 65 years or older

FIFTY FIFTY

There would be an equal

number of males and females

There would be

SIXTY

Asians,

FIFTEEN

Africans,

FOURTEEN

people from the Americas,

and

ELEVEN

Europeans

SEVENTEEN

wouldn’t be able to read or write

TWENTY-THREE

wouldn’t have any shelter

ONE

would be dying of starvation

FIFTEEN

would be undernourished

TWENTY-ONE

would be overweight

THIRTEEN

wouldn’t have access to clean water

FIFTY-ONE

would live in cities

TWENTY-TWO

wouldn’t have electricity

Of those that do have electricity,

most would only use it for light at night

SIXTEEN

wouldn’t have toilets

SEVENTY-FIVE

would be cell phone users

THIRTY

would be active internet users

FORTY-EIGHT

would live on less than $2 per day

SEVEN

people would own an automobile

THIRTY

would be employed in Agriculture

FIVE

would own 32% of the wealth

The poorest

THIRTY-THREE

people would only receive 3% of the income

By the end of the year

ONE

person would die and

TWO

new people would be born.

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Saturn In A Bathtub? Just One Of Today’s Facts!

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Yes, the usual unusual mixture of facts for you today.

You’ll have a job trying to get Saturn into a bathtub, but in the meantime there are a lot of other facts to explore.

Enjoy.

If you could put Saturn in a bathtub it would float.

(But you will need a very large bathtub.)

If saliva cannot dissolve something,

you cannot taste it.

Your brain accounts for about 2% of your mass

but uses up to a quarter of your oxygen and energy

Chocolate contains phenylethylamine,

a naturally occurring amino-acid

which is believed to have aphrodisiacal effects

and is even said to be able to “cure” hangovers.

Roger Woodward goes down in history

as the youngest person to go over the

Niagara Falls unprotected and survive.

It was unintentional and happened

after a boat he was in capsized.

Marc Okrand, the linguistics professor responsible

for coming up with the fictional language of Klingon,

spent 3 years teaching his son when he was little.

His son went on to forget everything.

At its height in 480BC the first Persian Empire

covered 44% of the world’s population.

This is the largest percentage of any empire in history.

By comparison the British only had 20%

Life expectancy in the middle ages wasn’t as low as you think.

The average age was brought down

but that was mostly because of a high infant mortality rate.

Most adults lived well into their 60s.

Animal Kingdom was supposed to have had

a land devoted to mythical creatures,

but it was abandoned at the last minute.

However, no one thought about

changing the Animal Kingdom sign,

which still includes a dragon

Gorgias of Epirus, a Greek teacher

was born in his dead mother’s coffin.

The pallbearers heard him crying during the burial.

Heresy comes from a Greek word meaning choice

JFK was a huge James Bond fan.

He first met the author of the series,

Ian Fleming, at a dinner party in 1960.

They allegedly bounced around ideas

about how to get rid of Fidel Castro.

The world’s highest road is the Aucanquilcha mining road.

This mining road was once used by trucks

to climb this Chilean volcano to an altitude of over 6,000 meters.

In ancient Rome, urine was used as mouthwash.

(Now that really is taking the piss!)

The musical Grease is one of the highest grossing of all time

with receipts Worldwide of $394,955,690.

I think this is the one that you want….

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Did You Know? More Fascinating Facts.

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Another ‘Did You Know’ day on the fasab blog.

More fascinating facts to ponder over.

Enjoy.

The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.

A collector of broken laser pointers bought it for $14.83.

The first recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross award

(for heroism or achievement in aerial combat)

was Charles Lindbergh.

He achieved this feat a year before his famous transatlantic flight.

The Gideons, who went on to place millions of Bibles

in hotels, prisons, hospitals and military bases,

first did so at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana, in 1908.

The poinsettia’s red petals are actually leaves.

Superman’s alter-ego, Clark Kent, originally worked

as a reporter for the Daily Star.

The Star changed its name to

the more familiar Daily Planet in 1940.

Washington State was supposed to be named “Columbia”

but the idea was scrapped because it was thought

it would be too easily confused with “Columbia City”

(today commonly referred to as Washington, D.C.).

Neuticles are synthetic testicles for neutered pets.

The tagline: “It’s like nothing ever changed.”

The Flintstones was sponsored by a cigarette company

during the show’s first two seasons.

The show was intended for adults, not kids,

so few complained about the commercials that depicted

the stone-age characters puffing away on Winstons.

The hyoid bone is the only bone in the human body

not connected to another bone.

In 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station.

Three successive crews lived and worked there for more than 171 days.

Knowing a call to the fire department would accomplish precious

little from outer space, NASA and Honeywell International, Inc., developed

an alarm system that would alert the station’s crew to smoke or fire.

The smoke detector used on the space station is the same kind

that is now found in 90 percent of U.S. homes.

Twitter’s bird logo is named Larry,

for Larry Bird.

The University of Minnesota

is older than the state of Minnesota.

While Stephen King sets many of his stories in Maine,

the state actually has the lowest violent-crime rate in the U.S.

Printing the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency was a mandate

handed down by Abraham Lincoln’s Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase.

During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt attempted to remove the slogan

because he, as a devout Christian, felt that putting God on money was a sacrilege.

Syd Barrett got the name Pink Floyd from two American blues musicians,

Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

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