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50 Numbers From 2014 That Sound Fake But That Are Actually Real<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2014 was quite a bizarre year, wasn\u2019t it?\u00a0 The past 12 months brought us MH370, Ebola, civil war in Ukraine, civil unrest in Ferguson, the rise of ISIS and the fall of the Democrats in the midterm elections.\u00a0 Our world is becoming crazier and more unstable with each passing day, and I have a feeling that things are going to accelerate greatly in 2015.\u00a0 But for the moment things are relatively quiet as much of the world stops to celebrate the holiday season, so now is a good time to look back and see where we have been over the past year.\u00a0 The facts that I am about to share with you sound false, but they are all quite true.\u00a0 If you doubt any of these facts, just click the link on the number to find the source.\u00a0 It has been said that truth is stranger than fiction, and that was definitely the case during the past 12 months.\u00a0 In no particular order, the following are 50 numbers from 2014 that sound fake but that are actually real\u2026<\/p>\n

2.5<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Researchers have discovered that characters in cartoons for children are 2.5 times more likely to die than characters in adult dramas.\u00a0 But as long as those characters look cute and make funny noises it must be okay.<\/p>\n

$4.20<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The price of ground beef just hit a brand new record high of $4.20 a pound.\u00a0 Exactly 10 years ago, it was just $2.21 a pound.\u00a0 What do you thinkClara Peller<\/a>\u00a0would say about this?<\/p>\n

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50 Numbers From 2014 That Sound Fake But That Are Actually Real. 2014 was quite a bizarre year, wasn\u2019t it?\u00a0 The past 12 months brought us MH370, Ebola, civil war in Ukraine, civil unrest in Ferguson, the rise of ISIS and the fall of the Democrats in the midterm elections.\u00a0 Our world is becoming crazier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[244,271,483,642,2084],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-economics-2","tag-environment-2","tag-liberty-2","tag-poverty","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}