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More people are killed each year by vending machines than sharks

This is only because the sharks are angry, as their packet of NikNaks got ‘hungup’ and without forearms they find rocking the machine to release them difficult………

It is estimated that between a third and three-quarters of statistics are rather vague

Haven’t watched the video yet, but wha?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_summation

If you analyse natural numbers e.g. numbers you come across while reading newspapers or websites, or even tables in engineering handbooks 31% will start with 1, 18% start with 2 and only 5% start with 9.

The worlds population can fit on the isle of white.

Not since the end of the 1970’s, when it got bigger than 4 billion, it can’t.

When people lose find something 100% it’s in the last place they look.

When people lose find something 100% it’s in the last place they look.

Of course it is, why would you continue looking for something when you have found it?

alibongo001 complete misses the point of the threads entitled ‘Interesting but ultimately useless statistics’ 100% of the time.

And thanks chubby for fixing my dyslexia. 😳

100% of 650b wheeled bikes make the trail come alive.

We all knew that of course but what you may not know is that:

74% of 29r bikes act as a medium for the reincarnation of old woodland singletrack AND
97.7% of statistics on the internet relating to the wheel size debate are totally made up.

100% of threads on STW contain at least one post that misses the point completely.
Don’t they alibongo001?

More than ten times as many people have been killed at a Formula 1 race than have won the World Championship.
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Tim Henman and Andy Murray combined have only won one more Wimbledon title than I have.
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Canada is approximately 42 times bigger than the UK but only has half the population.

All the water on the earth has always been here, and none has been lost.

If you had a conga line of people going all the way around the world.

Roughly two thirds of the people would drown.

100% of my socks appear to have holes in them.

Saw these a while back… Most popular names of babies by year

That’s teh awsums. O

I’m fairly sure NASA got rid of some of it.

Didn’t it come in ice from comets when earth was being formed?
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There are five countries which end in the letter L.
There are only two countries which start with an A but don’t end in an A

nealglover – Member
If you had a conga line of people going all the way around the world.
Roughly two thirds of the people would drown

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(should you inform the Guinness records people, just in case ?)

Only one in ten garages in the UK is used for keeping a car in.

The worlds population can fit on the isle of white.

Not since the end of the 1970’s, when it got bigger than 4 billion, it can’t.

According to The Boffin on R2 homework last week, they could still fit on the Shetland’s.

IS that because it’s colder in the Shetlands and things shrink when they get cold?

No, just bigger surface area than IOM.

Swansea City have more possession of the ball than any other team…and are 15th in the Prem 😥

Never mind the Isle Of Wight,Man or Madagascar, Alec Salmond plans to submerge the world’s population(and some more) in Loch Ness as part of his SNP world domination plan.
http://scotlandoutdoor.com/scotland/interesting-facts-about-loch-ness/