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There are statistics for about everything you can imagine. Some are important references, such as the chances each person has of experiencing a car crash, or the odds of getting a specific disease. However, apart from this significant data, there are also much less important statistics which, in spite of their uselessness, still are produced and published. This entry focuses on the latter, in other words, absolutely useless statistics which make up 31.6 % of all statistics!
· 58.4 percent of people have called to work (or school) sick when actually they weren’t.
· When in someone else’s restroom, 39% of people glance through the bathroom’s cabinet.
o 17% get caught.
· 29% of the people ignore RSVP
· 22% of all restaurant meals include French fries
· 22% of men and women leave a blob of toothpaste in the sink
· 71.6% of people eavesdrop
· 53% read the horoscopes daily
· Two thirds of people speed up at a yellow light
· One out of every five men proposed on his knee
· 315 entries on Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled each day
· 0.3 percent of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose
· A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the US
· 13 people every year are killed by vending machines falling on them
· In a year, the average person makes 1,140 phone calls
· The average 4 year old asks over 400 questions a day
· The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime
· You are most likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark
· The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic lights to change
· 90% of women who walk into a department store automatically turn to the right
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· Odds of being killed by a-
o Dog – one in 700,000
o Tornado – one in 2,000,000
o Murdered – one 20,000
o Bathtub – one in 1,000,000
I hope you have enjoyed reading these statistics which, hopefully, have widened your knowledge about useless things. Before I close this entry, I’d like to give you one last piece of information: be aware that it was statistically proven that approximately 97.3978271128 percent of all statistics are made up!
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