NASA’s budget for the year is about how much the US military spends every 11 days. In 2012, the defense budget was higher than 50 years of NASA budgets.

The average US college student attends 62 parties a year.

59% of those college students graduate in 6 years or less.

The average person reads 250 words per minute. Braille readers manager about 115 words per minute.

Speaking of braille, only 1% of the UK’s visually impaired citizens read it, compared to the 10% of legally blind Americans.

3.3% of US births are twins, a number that has risen 76% in the last 30 years.

A 2013 survey found that 38% of kids 2 years old or younger have watched games or videos on a mobile device.

In 2009 the Pew Research Center surveyed 2,260 people on whether they preferred to live closer to a Starbucks or McDonalds. They learned that 46% of liberals picked Starbucks as opposed to 28% of conservatives.

In 2013 the BBC reported that 50% of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers are fake. The source was a website who searched Bieber’s followers for buzzwords typically associated with spam, such as diet and money… and probably McLaren.

Barn owls are technically monogamous, but 23.5% of them are “divorced.”

4% of lost remotes are found in either the fridge or freezer, according to one 2011 survey.

You’ve probably heard before that 50% of marriages end in divorce, but it’s not true. Divorce rates in the US have been decreasing for years, and it’s now estimated that 2/3 of current American marriages will stay intact.

It’s not true that only 1 in 10 Americans have a passport, despite many claims. The actual number is currently 38%, which is much larger than 1974, when only 3% of Americans had one.

Facebook hosts 4% of photos EVER TAKEN.

A 1993 study conducted in the UK found that injuries procured on Friday the 13th were 52% more likely to result in a hospital admittance than other Fridays.

An estimated 80% of US jobs that are available are never advertised.

If we could remove a pumping human heart from a body, it would shoot blood 30 feet in the air. Yikes.

Only 32% of network shows get a second season.

5 million Americans spend 40 hours a week playing video games. That’s a full time job, people.

25% of Americans aged 18-24 years who own a smartphone say they can’t remember the last time they didn’t have their phone by their side.

In 2011 the Bureau of Transportation Statistics found that 40% of the most delayed flights in the US were either going to or leaving from Newark Airport in New Jersey.

33% of people say a movie made them consider a breakup.

A 2015 study found that over half of Americans’ leisure time is spent in front of the TV.

46% of pro football hall of famers only played for one team during their time in the NFL.

14% of Americans think Bigfoot is real.

According to one survey, about 72% of women and 60% of men who had affairs with a coworker started the infidelity at an office holiday party. ’Tis the season.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts researched lying in 2002 and found that 60% of adults lie at least once in a ten-minute conversation. Most of them actually averaged about 3 lies per conversation….. One of them was probably about that office holiday party.