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Crap
By The Numbers
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The following
are all of the Weekly Droppings that have appeared on
Mindless Crap, dating back to the first one posted on
October 1, 2000.
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The skin of a human being varies from 0.5mm in the
eyelids to 6.0mm or more in the palms, soles of the feet
and between the shoulders. |
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The following are the elements that make up a 154-pound
man:
100 pounds of oxygen
27.72 pounds of carbon
15.4 pounds of hydrogen
4.62 pounds of nitrogen
2.31 pounds of calcium
1.54 pounds of phosphorous
0.54 pounds of potassium
0.35 pounds of sulfur
0.23 pounds of chlorine
0.23 pounds of sodium
0.007 pounds of magnesium
0.0006 pounds of iron
.0045 pounds of manganese
Tiny traces of zinc, copper, fluorine, silicon and
iodine |
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Only one thunderstorm in 800 produces hailstones as
large as walnuts, and one in 5,000 produces hailstones as
large as baseballs. |
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In one year the average human heart circulates from
770,000 to 1.6 million gallons of blood through the
body. |
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The Rubik's Cube can be turned into over forty-three
quintillion (43,252,003,274,489,856,000) different
configurations. |
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The average ejaculate contains as many as 787 million
sperm. |
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On average, a Twinkie will explode in a microwave in 45
seconds. |
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If you were to count continuously every moment of every
day, it would take 31,688 years to count to one
trillion. |
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From a
52-card deck it is possible to deal 2,598,960 different
five-card poker hands. |
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The total
amount of money in a standard Monopoly game is $15,140. |
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A dime has 118
ridges around the edge. |
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It takes approximately 4,000
double-folds to tear a U.S. dollar bill. |
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Stats about
the average housewife: Walks 10 miles a day around the
house doing chores, and walks 4 miles and spends 25
hours a year making beds. |
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The average
lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write
approximately 50,000 English words. |
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Though there
are only 52 cards in a typical deck of cards, they can
be arranged in just about
80,660,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
different ways. |
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123456787654321
is 11,111,111 multiplied by itself. |
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According to
the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots
every time you watch 101 Dalmatians. |
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| On
a bingo card of 90 numbers there are approximately 44
million possible ways to make bingo. |
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| Barbie's
measurements, if she were life size, would be
39-23-33. |
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number 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover. |
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| The
chances of an exact duplication of fingerprints are
about 64 billion to 1. |
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odds against a royal flush in poker are exactly
649,739 to 1. |
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| A
sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. |
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| If
you had $10 billion in $1 bills and spent one every
second, it would take 317 years to spend them all. |
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| The
work "fuck" is used 257 times in the movie Pulp
Fiction. |
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| Six
eight-stud Lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500
ways. |
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| There are more than
100 distinct ethnic groups in the former Soviet states. |
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| There
are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the
torch in the Statue of Liberty. |
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| Over
the course of his lifetime, the average man will ejaculate
approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing about a
half trillion sperm. |
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| If
you had 15 cubes numbered 1 to 15 and you tried to line
them up in every possible sequence, and if you made
a change every minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years
to do it. |
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| The
number 37 will wholly divide (no decimals) into 111,
222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999. |
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| Here
are the odds of rolling various combinations with two
dice in a game of Craps:
ROLL:
ODDS:
2 or 12
35 to 1
3 or 11
17 to 1
4 or 10
11 to 1
5 or 9
8 to 1
6 or 8
6.2 to 1
7
5 to 1
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| When
pure gold is beaten with a mallet and made into gold
leaf, the average thickness runs between 1/200,000th
to 1/250,000th of an inch. |
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| Except
for 2 and 3, every prime number will eventually become
divisible by 6 if you either add or subtract 1 from
the number. For example, the number 17, plus 1, is divisible
by 6. The number 19, minus 1, is also divisible by 6. |
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| For
a typical lovemaking session, the man will thrust an
average of 60 to 120 times. |
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| The
clock at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington,
D.C. will gain or lose only one second every 300 years. |
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| You
could walk from New York to Boston in less than one
million steps. |
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| If
you were to go on vacation for eleven days, you'd have
less than one million seconds to enjoy it. |
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| The
number of possible ways of playing just the first four
moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. |
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are 24 known "perfect" numbers. These
are numbers that equal the sum of all its divisors except
itself. For instance, six - the lowest of these
numbers - is divisible by 1, 2, or 3 and 1+2+3=6.
The largest of the known "perfect" numbers
has 12,003 digits. |
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| The
number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion
trillion: 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000. |
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| The
average per capita consumption of soap, in all of its
uses, in the United States is about forty pounds per
year. |
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| Manhattan
Island from end to end is less than one million inches
long. |
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| A
mark twain, a nautical measurement of depth, is
equal to twelve feet. |
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| The
standard blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox can hold approximately
4,000 letters at a time. |
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According
to the 1900 U.S. Census, there were:
596,000 carpenters
280,000 laundresses
220,000 blacksmiths
134,000 tailors
102,000 shoemakers
42,000 porters
37,000 stonecutters
25,000 millers
8,000 bootblacks
7,000 furriers |
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| The
numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to
seven. |
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| The
top downhill speed of the Ford Model T was 50 miles
per hour. |
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| In
1996, people in the United States sent and received
182,660,700,000 pieces of mail domestically.
By way of comparison, Japan ranked second on
this list with just 24,971,279,000. |
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| According
to the United States Postal Service, each person
sent on average 689 letters throughout the year of 1996. |
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| Chicago
has hosted the most presidential conventions with 25.
Fourteen have been Republican and 11 Democratic. |
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| India
has the most post offices of any country with 280,181. |
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| When
George Washington
ran for the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1757, he
was accused of trying to win votes by plying voters
with 28 gallons of rum, 50 gallons of rum punch, 46
gallons of beer and 34 gallons of wine. |
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| The
Fresh Kills
Landfill on Staten Island, NY opened in 1948 and is
the world's largest landfill. It covers 3,000 acres
and receives 14,000 tons of garbage a day. It's scheduled
to close in 2002. |
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| The
United States
produces 3,145,892,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity
every year. That's over three times the amount of the
second-highest producing country, Russia. |
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| In
1930, the
heaviest a female flight attendant could be was 115
pounds. They also had to be unmarried nurses. |
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| There
are 63,360 inches in a mile. |
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| The
World
Bank estimates that Mexico owes the most money of any
country in the world. They have $165,743,000,000
in external debt. Brazil is second with $159,139,000,000
in debt. |
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| One
million tons of oil is equivalent to about 13,000,000,000
kilowatt hours of electricity. |
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| The
number 111,111,111 multiplied by itself will result
in the number 12,345,678,987,654,321. |
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| Of
the estimated
162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million
have unlisted numbers. |
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| The
number of possible ways of playing just the first four
moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. |
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| There
are 24 known "perfect" numbers. These are
numbers that equal the sum of all its divisors except
itself. For instance, six - the lowest of these numbers
- is divisible by 1, 2, or 3 and 1+2+3=6. The largest
of the known "perfect" numbers has 12,003
digits. |
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| The
number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion
trillion: 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000. |
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| There
are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play
the ten opening moves in a game of chess. |
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| There
is a way of writing 1 by using all ten single-digit
numbers at once:
148/296
+ 35/70 = 1. |
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| If
the average person had started counting the moment they
were born and continued counting, without stopping,
until they turned 65 years old, they still would not
have counted to a billion. |
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| Of
the 25 highest mountains on earth, 19 are in the Himalayas. |
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| The
air we breathe is comprised of 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen
and 0.5% argon. |
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| There
are 10,000,000 bricks in the Empire State Building. |
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| Lightning
puts 10,000,000 tons of nitrogen into the earth each
year. |
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| It
takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon. |
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| Ninety
percent of all species that have become extinct have
been birds. |
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| The
number of VCRs in the United States grew from 52,565,000
in 1987 to 86,825,000 in 1997, a 39.5% increase. |
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| In
honor of the original thirteen states, the U.S. $1 bill
has the following on the back:
13
steps on the pyramid.
The motto above the pyramid has 13 letters (annuit
coeptis).
E pluribus unum, written on the ribbon in the
eagle's beak, has 13 letters.
13 stars appear over the eagle's head.
13 stripes are on the shield.
13 war arrows are in the eagle's left talon.
The olive branch in the eagle's right talon has 13
leaves. |
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| In
driving tests, women reacted to emergency options in.56
of a second. Men scored .59 in the same tests. |
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| Eight
positions are mentioned in Abbott and Costello's "Who's
on First?" routine. Only right field was left out. |
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| The
universe is so vast in relation to the matter it contains
that it can be compared in the following way:
A
building 20 miles long, 20 miles wide and 20 miles
high that contains 1 grain of sand. |
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| Pennies
are made of 95% copper and 5% zinc. |
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| The
Pacific Ocean holds 46% of the world’s water.
The rest is divided up as followed:
Atlantic Ocean – 23.9%, Indian Ocean – 20.3%,
and the Arctic Ocean – 3.7%. |
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| A
two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water
as a one-inch hose. |
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| The
Federal Reserve printed up an extra $50 billion in small
bills just in case people started hoarding money prior
to the year 2000. Since nowhere near that much cash
was needed, and there was a long-term storage problem,
most of that money was recycled. |
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| The
United States nickel (five cent piece) is made of 75%
copper and 25% nickel. |
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| In
1950, UNIVAC became the first computer to tabulate the
United States census. |
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| Elephants
produce 50 pounds of manure every day. |
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