Stats that are surprising

[Ontobetterthings]

I came across a stat online earlier that said 80% of the world's population hasn't been on a plane. Aibu to find this so surprising?

What other stats have you come across which suprised you?

Is that globally or in a specific country? And if it's a country, Is it one where guns are legal? In the UK for example, I'd absolutely expect more deaths from swimming pools than guns.

@Nousernameideaaga approximately 90%of the hazelnuts on my hazelnut tree are eaten by squirrels😠

And they are not even sorry

It makes sense to me because of the exclusively bit. Lots of babies have tried solids before six months, even if it's only mouthing at a bit of banana their dad was eating and decided to pop in their mouth. I was advised to start trying mine on solids at about five months even though all the books said wait till six and I don't think it's that unusual? I don't think it necessarily means only 26% are breastfed rather than fed formula.

I've always wondered if the question in that survey was poorly worded. I breastfed to natural term and never once gave formula, but if I was asked in a survey at six months just "are you exclusively breastfeeding?" I'd have said no, as we started solids at 6 months.

I think that’s from Freakonomics, and is based on having a pool is a higher risk than having a firearm in the house.

In 2020, in the USA the leading cause of death of persons aged 19 and under shifted from motor vehicle accidents to firearms.

Civil war? 🤣

That's freakonomics too am I right? I found that very interesting as if I recalled correctly it mentioned the link between poorer classes having a higher rate of abortion. I grew up in Ireland where it was illegal but would have said the opposite, it was middle class or more educated women who were traveling for abortion. Even when legalised it's still less common for poorer women to terminate, completely in contrast with the US demographic.

Only if you count the Troubles as a civil war, because we’re ‘not forgetting NI’.

And conversely…it only takes 8 perfect shuffles to return the cards to their original order 🤯

You alright hun?

In UK 1 in 4 girls gets sexually assaulted and 1 in 10 boys.

I think it's that 1/4 Brits have a police record. That's not the same as a criminal record.

Describing Britain as poverty stricken 🤣

No. Driving offenses only count if it is tried in court and the person is found guilty.

This reminds me of a school trip to Soviet Russia in 1968. Students studying English read Charles Dickens, and thought life in England was still like that.

If you are in a group of 23 people it’s more likely than not that two will have the same birthday.

The bigger the group the more likely it is.

I think you’ll find it’s closer to 76.3%.

😉

Utterly hilarious. Do you live in the UK?

Aside the fact that the US is huge as other posted have said with pretty much any vacation type within the country, Americans also travel to Mexico, Canada and many Caribbean islands etc, with just their drivers license and can also go on some cruises with just drivers licence or birth certificate even though the cruise goes out of the US and back.

To give context of the size, I went on a road trip last year around Lake Michigan over 2 weeks with lots of amazing stops and that lake is over 37 times the size of London and it's not even the biggest lake in the US so I can see why many Americans don't bother. And along that trip we stopped at many varied stops from sand dunes to caves to cities to small towns to lakefront sites etc.

In the UK you haven't gone on vacation if it isn't abroad, different mindset. In the UK it's usually for the PM to more often than not go to Spain etc for vacation, in the US the president largely vacation within the US.

I do think the UK has lots of beauty as well but I think when you look at costs plus weather it make more sense to go abroad for most families I guess.

I know, I seem to have missed that. Although I have been saying I should probably get out more.

give ten examples of civil war in the uk in the last three years do not argue do not ponitifcate do not offer opinion do not attempt to be sly just give the examples asked for - this was my prompt into Chat GPT and that came up with:

2024 Southport riots — Southport, 30 July 2024.
2024 Liverpool riots — Liverpool, August 2024
2024 Rotherham riots — Rotherham, August 2024.
2024 Middlesbrough riots — Middlesbrough, August 2024.
2024 Sunderland riots — Sunderland, August 2024.
2024 Harehills riot — Leeds, July 2024.
2025 Ballymena riots — Ballymena, Northern Ireland, June 2025 police attacked protestors
2025 Epping asylum-hotel riots/protests — Epping, Essex, July–August 2025; protesters clashed with police who were attacking them
2026 Belfast riots — Belfast and surrounding areas, June 2026 police attacked protestors
2026 Thetford unrest — Thetford, Norfolk, August 2026 several nights of escalating violence exacerbated by police

These are just the first 10 that came up. There have been dozens more all over the last couple of years.

I don't bother book marking them anymore, but this is common knowledge to anyone outside the Guardian readership.

So yeah, if you don't know about the civil war taking place all over the UK, you really do need to get out more.

Riots are not civil war. Try again.

I just love that the Thetford 'unrest' is being described as civil war!