21. National Geographic found in 2018 that only 9% of all plastic worldwide gets recycled.
A study in the US by the Environmental Protection Agency found only 8.4% of US waste was recycled.
Biffa Waste Services Ltd was caught sending over 1,000 tonnes of private home waste to India labelled as paper so you pay less per container, for profit.
Basically, recycling is a depressing joke.
– Dynasty2201
22. The average drunk driver drives under the influence more than 80 times before they get caught.
– Bracelona10G
23. Belly button bacteria study was wild. 60 belly buttons were sampled. 2368 different species of bacteria were 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.
Here is a link to the study. You have to go to the results and discussion tab. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0047712
– Adventurous-life
24. The human eye blinks about 4.2 million times a year on average.
– selfishnerd97
25. The birthday ‘paradox’, the fact if you have 23 random people there is a 50% chance 2 have the same birthday.
– SebaZDK
26. The most obese state in the country in 1990 (Mississippi, 15%) was still far skinnier than the least obese state in the country in 2020 (Colorado, 24%).
– jinbtown
This still blows my mind and I literally think about it every day
27. Planes were being produced at such an unbelievable rate, Britain possessed more planes at the end of the Battle of Britain than at the beginning.
– marvoisgnear
28. A wild Boar can ejaculate up to half a liter of semen in one go.
This was a “did you know” quote from our school’s biology books in the 90s!
– Elrobinio
29. 18% of all boating accidents are caused by people trying to pee over the side.
– Oscars_Gouach
30. If every star in a milky way had a billion planets and every planet had a billion people and each person had a billion decks of cards and each deck was shuffled a billion times a second starting with the big bang, you would only just now be running out of unique arrangements.
So if you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards it is an almost complete mathematical certainty that the arrangement of cards has never before existed in human history. Winning the lottery ten times in a row would be vastly more probable than randomly stacking a deck in the same order twice.
– sharrper