Stats that are surprising

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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?

And we are closer in time to a T -Rex that T rex was to a Stegosaurus! Blows my mind

And 95% of the British blackcurrant crop is used for Ribena!

This would have been an interesting thread but you have to wade through a load of tedious, off topic, pedantic and earnest posts about breastfeeding to find them. 🙄

Does anyone still buy Ribena? It’s utterly disgusting since they removed the sugar and replaced it with chemicals.

I was the first woman in 3 generations to bf. I saw it through because, as well as having vast quantities of milk, sheer bloodymindedness got me through the first 6 weeks of pain and inconvenience and thrush. Then it genuinely became easy. My mum was convinced to ff (70s), because that's what everyone did.
My gmsthers were too busy with their other kids and working shifts. One feed her kids evaporated milk. I'm astonished they kept their teeth.

A fair few people at baby groups told me they didn't bf because 'it's weird'. But maybe that tells you more about the area I grew up and live in.

Riots and protests do not equal ‘civil war’ - you ok hun?

Idk… I had no doubts I’d be able to breastfeed. No problems latching, no pain, supportive DH - totally fed on demand but my milk was slow to start and took time to build up so we needed a little bit of formula for the first four weeks. No one had mentioned this might happen because of PCOS. But if I not had access to western medicine I probably wouldn’t have got pregnant in the first place. So there’s another facto to throw in. Plus, perhaps, maternal age?

sorry if some find this strand of discussion boring, just scroll on by.

Oh they're far from ok.
Time for meds and back to their comfy padded room.

When I was pregnant I read a report of study that said that intending to breastfeed before giving birth correlated more closely with these outcomes - suggesting it is a "giving a shit" thing.

I think @OhFFS26 is getting muddled up between “civil war” and “civil unrest.”

ERM, have you been to the UK? To London, Surrey, St Albans, Bath, Cheltenham, Oxford, Cambridge, the home counties, the south coast, Winchester, Chichester, Hove, the second home land of Devon and Cornwall, Poole, Monmouthshire, Hay on Wye, Solihull, York, Harrogate, Newcastle, Leeds, Chester, Edinburgh? Also, I am not so sure that you have seen much of the US if you don't think there is poverty there....

I’ve checked it against verifiable sources now

its because the chances of getting the same deck is to 1: 8 with 67 0s

which is far more than 1 million, billion, trillion

it’s mathematically verifiable

Agreed

so many other interesting facts on here. Wish the breastfeeding chat could move to one of the multiple other threads on the topic..

This 1% at 6 months is from the 2014 survey and does not include expressed BM.

@Minasama @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne
@Persephonia1966

I see what you all mean. I just Chat GPT’ed it

Really glad this is being read and quoted over and over. The horrified "I don't want to believe it so it's just not true" bubble you're living in needed to be punctured, and it has been. There is civil unrest all over the UK and mumsnetters are basically clueless morons living in total denial, and think screeching slurs at people will stop what's happening.

Happy to be the one who forced you to see what's really happening. You'll find dozens more riots and civil war related issues happening all over the UK, once you get off the Guardian and the Beeb. HTH.

How do you know it stopped. Only 5% of mothers have clinically low supply. But things like formula tops ups, tounge tie, and delayed feeding in first few hours of babies life can affect how the supply builds up and the maximum it reaches. How do you know it was none of these? The NHS tell you to give formula rather than investigating the cause as they do not know about breastfeeding how how to solve BF problems hence the “lack of support”

From what I can find, the entire UK including Northern Ireland is slightly smaller than the US state of Oregon.

There is more water in the Loch Ness than in the lakes, rivers, canals, and reservoirs in England and Wales combined. It rains that much.

Strong agree - and I stopped BF my second son when he was three! Wish these posts (and the repeatedly quoted one going on about civil war in the uk) would go away.

It's not so much about how much it rains (albeit that's a lot) but about how deep Loch Ness is (very!)

You missed the first bit where it made the clarification that these events are not actually civil war though. People like you just can't help but lie relentlessly can you.

I think you are missing some science education.

In the UK, since records began, only 1 % of money spent on cancer research is dedicated to brain tumour research.

This is despite brain tumours killing more children and adults under 40 than other cancers.

Tiny we may be but even with our comparatively dense population we haven’t utterly desecrated vast tracts of the planet with ugly suburban sprawl, retail parks, freeways and agribusiness yet.

Find me a bit of what you could call ‘countryside’ in the US outside the National Parks. or a pretty small town or village.