100 Mind-Blowing Count Facts

The highest body count in film history goes to “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” with 836 on-screen deaths.

The average person takes 12 seconds to count to 24.

Mulan has the highest kill count of any Disney character, including villains, and was the first Disney Princess to be shown killing people on-screen.

To determine how far away a lightning storm is from you, National Geographic Kids says you can count the seconds between the flash and the crack and watch for the flash of lightning from a safe location. Time how many seconds elapse before you hear thunder. Divide the number of seconds by five and the answer is the approximate number of miles away.

Among all the Disney princesses, Mulan has the highest kill count. Throughout the film, Mulan had killed almost 2,000 people in an avalanche. This includes the hun leader, Shan-Yu.

1000 is the first number from 0 that uses the letter a when spelled. However, if you spell 101 as ‘one hundred and one’, it may also count for some people.

Chickens outnumber humans. As of 2011, there has been a recorded number of 19 billion chickens – which is over twice the latest population count for humans (7.7 billion).

You can estimate the temperature through cricket chirps. If you count how many chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds and then add 37, you’ll get a rough estimate of the temperature.

The Muppet vampire, Count von Count from Sesame Street, is based on an actual vampire myth. One way to supposedly deter a vampire is to throw seeds outside a door. Vampires are compelled to count the seeds, delaying them until morning.

YouTube Has 2 billion Monthly Logged-in Users. Are you impressed by the number of active iPhones currently in use? Multiply that number by two and you will have a good idea of the number of people who count on YouTube tutorials and broadcasts for myriad reasons. An international presence is partly responsible for these big numbers. Localised versions of YouTube produce content for around 100 nations, broadcasting in approximately 80 languages. Do you upload content? You’re in good company. About 500 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute, fulfilling this social media platform’s long-term goal to be a primary resource for folks around the planet.

Music content makes up 5% of YouTube. Even though 5% seems like a low number, it is the most engaged type of video on YouTube. They count for 20% of YouTube’s total views!

The Maya had multiple calendars to measure time. The most familiar is the Long Count Calendar. These calendars measured around 5125 years, beginning around August 3114 BCE. The Long Count calendar’s cycle came to an end around December 21, 2012, sparking a craze of Armageddon conspiracy theories.

There are 20,323,379 lines of code in the Linux kernel as of 2018. That might sound like a lot but it’s the smallest the kernel has been for some time! Even so, despite the recent reductions, the huge line count means Linux remains the single largest open-source project on the planet.

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