Surprising Statistics

Here are some numbers so astonishing, so mind-blowing, that they defy the very fabric of reality:

  1. The average person spends 4 hours per week thinking about pineapple pizza.
  2. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 2.5 seconds.
  3. There are 5.3 million types of socks in the world, but 99.9% of them are missing.
  4. Astronauts on the International Space Station spend an average of 3 hours per day watching cat videos.
  5. The Great Wall of China is painted with 2,300,000 gallons of ketchup.
  6. There are 17 different ways to tie a bow tie, but only 3 ways to eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

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