Odd Stats and Facts and Other Weird Crap Thread

[chinamaniac]

Led Zeppelin played over 600 concerts but never once played this song live

[DonaldTrumpsHairPiece]

Ok Ill play...

Prostitutes make far less today than 100+ years ago due to most women now giving away sex for free. Basically the moral decay of women has led to prostitutes making less.

[Daly]

Over 18.7 million brackets were entered in ESPN Tournament Challenge.

Only 18 picked all 16 Sweet 16 teams correctly.

[hongkonger]

Led Zeppelin played over 600 concerts but never once played this song live

I believe they also never played In the Light, a fucking great song, in concert due to the complexity of the synth and the difficulty of replicating it live.

[MumblesBadly]

I'll play, too...

Between 1300 and 1400, real wages in Europe rose by about the same percentage as the population declined due to the repeated outbreaks of the Black Death.



P.S. This graphic only shows some outbreaks from the initial spread of the disease there. Each successive generation for the next 100 years or so also got snapped by outbreaks, as they had no immunity to it.

[hongkonger]

I'll play, too...

Between 1300 and 1400, real wages in Europe rose by about the same percentage as the population declined due to the repeated outbreaks of the Black Death.



P.S. This graphic only shows some outbreaks from the initial spread of the disease there. Each successive generation for the next 100 years or so also got snapped by outbreaks, as they had no immunity to it.

That's also the only century in which the population of the planet is known to have declined. The labor shortage is considered a factor in the decline of feudalism.

[Jayjami]

Please refrain from referring to the medieval bubonic plague epidemic in Europe as the "Black Death". That's racist.

[lewfather]

If you played all of the Beatles singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back to back, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes.