From Cracked.com:
Every once in awhile, you’ll hear a statistic so striking you can hardly believe it’s true. Our first impulse is to repeat it, because knowing interesting things tends to make people like us better.
Unfortunately, some people are so desperate for interesting facts to quote, that they’ll just pull them right out of their ass. Then those facts get repeated, by–you guessed it–people like us.
The six most quoted “too awesome to be true” stats that, in fact, are …
