just to prove that the world is crazy and those that study it are even crazier, I have compiled just a few insane statistics that I have read on the web recently.

1. Are you a Japanese teen and skipping breakfast? Yes! Well then you are on average having sex 2 years younger than your sensible breakfast eating counterparts. – Perhaps it has something to do with time :P
Read more @ Reuters

Actually, this was the only one that prompted this post, but when I find more I will add here. Oooo Exciting.

More found so more added:

2. Over 2.5 billion achievements have been unlocked by the Xbox Live users. – Think if all of these people had used that time to strive for world peace, where would we be now? Original source

3. Pumping Iron could reduce your cancer risk by up to 40% – Yet another statistic to make you want to exercise, if only gyms were interesting places! More Here

4. One cool stats website I stumbled across the other day is Worldometer which is keeping an eye on… well loads of things. Be warned though, I find looking at this too long is alarming in the extreme.

5. In 2007, a kilogram of heroin no. 3 typically sold for an average wholesale price of $2,520 in Pakistan; the average 2005 per-kilogram wholesale price of heroin no. 4 in that country equaled approximately $4,159. The 2007 wholesale price for a kilogram of heroin in Afghanistan ranged around $2,405. In Colombia, a kilogram of heroin no. 4 typically sold for $9,992 wholesale in 2006. In the United States in 2007, a kilogram of heroin no. 4 cost an average of $71,200 wholesale… Wow that’s a big profit, now I can see why drugs are such big business. More drug facts

6. Not so much of a fact more a interesting tip, if you ever wanted to know a little more about the LAPD and what they get up to, listen to their radio communications.

7. Only 3% of water on earth is deemed to be fresh water, even less than that is deemed to be safe drinking water. Read this post as to why this is even more concerning than it sounds.

More to come when I find more, I promise.