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The average person spends about 2 weeks of their life waiting at red lights.
You are more likely to be struck by lightning than win many major lottery jackpots.
About 70% of people experience impostor syndrome.
Roughly 1 in 4 people have a mental health disorder at some point.
The average person will spend about 3.5 years eating over their lifetime.
About 85% of people experience significant anxiety at some point in their lives.
You are more likely to be killed by a vending machine than by a shark.
About 1 in 3 people talk to themselves regularly.
About 1 in 18 people have a sixth finger or toe.
The average person checks their phone over 100 times per day.
About 90% of your decisions are influenced by subconscious processes.
Roughly 2% of the population has green eyes.
About 1 in 3 people worldwide are overweight or obese.
The odds of flipping a coin and getting 10 heads in a row are 1 in 1,024.
Roughly 80% of people will experience back pain at some point in their lives.
Only about 5% of the ocean has been explored by humans.
About 75% of the human brain is water.
More than half of all people who have ever lived lived before 1800.
About 1 in 10 people are left-handed.
Roughly 93% of communication is nonverbal in face-to-face interaction.
You have a 1 in 400 trillion chance of being born as yourself.
About 8% of people have an extra rib.
Around 90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
The average person spends about 26 years of their life sleeping.
More people die taking selfies than from shark attacks in some recent years.
Roughly half of all humans who have ever lived died from infectious diseases.
About 1 in 5 people believe they have experienced a paranormal event.
You are more likely to die from falling out of bed than from a shark attack.
The Apollo guidance computer had less power than a modern calculator.
Some encryption methods are mathematically impossible to crack with current technology.
There are classified inventions that have never been revealed publicly.
The first computer virus was created as an experiment.
Satellites can read license plates from orbit under ideal conditions.
The U.S. once detonated nuclear weapons underwater near its own ships for testing.
The original purpose of corn was completely different before human cultivation.
Your phone can still track your location even without GPS using signals.
The Pentagon has plans prepared for zombie outbreaks as training scenarios.
There are more possible unique passwords than atoms on Earth.
Airplane black boxes are painted bright orange for visibility.
The first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot.
There are abandoned cities hidden around the world that were evacuated suddenly.
The human brain can generate false memories that feel completely real.
Your phone contains enough computing power to guide Apollo-era spacecraft.
The internet was originally designed to survive nuclear war.
The government has accidentally lost multiple nuclear weapons that were never recovered.
GPS exists because of Einstein’s theory of relativity correcting time differences.
The U.S. military tested detonating nuclear bombs in space during the Cold War.
The CIA once seriously researched using cats as listening devices in a project called Acoustic Kitty.
You are constantly moving through space even when standing still.
Every human shares a common ancestor if you go back far enough.