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🤯 Mind-Blowing Facts

Data that makes you rethink everything. Visualized.

Fun data visualizations that put wild facts into perspective. Part of my data storytelling experiments — blending market research skills with things that make you go "wait, what?"

✨ The Highlights

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65 million years
The OG Survivors
What was swimming around before trees even existed?
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👑
~2,000 years
Ancient... Or Not?
Moon landing or Pyramids—which was Cleopatra closer to?
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🌌
Only 4%
The 96% Mystery
We've mapped almost nothing. What's hiding in the rest?
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🦠
~3x more
You're Outnumbered
Your body is hosting way more guests than you think.
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🎄
~55%
Turkey to Tree
When do most Americans make the switch? Sooner than you'd guess.
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☀️
~109x
Earth's Reality Check
If the Sun were a door, what would Earth be?
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Holiday Edition

🎄 The great holiday debate 🎄

Warm White vs Multicolor Holiday Lights

58%

warm white

32%

multicolor

10%

depends

📊 Who prefers what (by generation)

Gen Z🔄 Flexible (LEDs)
40%
35%
25%
Millennials✨ Aesthetic-driven
62%
28%
10%
Gen X✨ Leaning classic white
55%
38%
Boomers🎄 Leading traditional multicolor
45%
50%
Warm whiteMulticolorVaries / Color-changing

What your lights say about you

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Warm White

Holiday Lights

🎯 Vibe:

"Clean, classic, cozy"

🎄 Tree style:

Matching ornaments, neutrals

💭 Feels:

"Calm, organized, peaceful"

📱 Influenced by:

Pinterest & Instagram aesthetics

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Multicolor

Holiday Lights

🎯 Vibe:

"Nostalgic, chaotic, playful"

🎄 Tree style:

Mismatched ornaments, bold

💭 Feels:

"Fun, warm, alive"

📱 Influenced by:

Childhood memories & tradition

Warm white holiday lights outsell multicolor 2:1 today...
but multicolor dominated before the '90s. Retro C9 bulbs still spike every year.
Gen Z is leading the color-changing LED revolution. 🔄
Nostalgia is undefeated. 🎄

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🎄 Holiday controversy 🎄

When Americans put up & take down their tree

🌲 When it goes UP

Nov 1Psychos (5%)
Nov 8🏢 Rockefeller arrives
Nov 29Black Friday (55%)
Dec 1Purists (24%)
Dec 4🏢✨ Rockefeller LIT

📦 When it comes DOWN

Dec 26Monsters (10%)
Jan 1New Year's (37%)
Jan 13🏢 Rockefeller down
Late JanIllinois* (4+ wks)
NeverLegends (1%)

Avg up: 4.5 wks before 🎄
Avg down: 2.9 wks after
Rockefeller keeps it up 10 weeks.
*Illinois residents wait the longest on average — 4.2 weeks after Christmas
Percentages reflect combined data from multiple sources and surveys; overlapping categories may exceed 100%

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History & Time

History is wild

Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than to the Pyramids

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Pyramids

2560 BCE

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Moon

1969 CE

👑Cleo
← 2,530 yrs1,999 yrs →

531 years closer

to watching Apollo 11 than seeing the Pyramids built 🤯

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Wait, what?

T. rex lived closer to us than to Stegosaurus

🦕

Stegosaurus

155M yrs ago

🦖

T. rex

67M yrs ago

👤

Humans

Now

They never met. Not even close. 🤯

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Read that again

Sharks are older than trees

65 million years

Sharks swam before the first tree existed

Sharks: the OG survivors 🌊

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🌌

Space & Scale

Humbling fact

We've only mapped 4% of the universe

4%

mapped

Ordinary matter
Dark matter & energy

96% is stuff we can't see or explain 🌌

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Scale check

If the Sun were a door, Earth would be a nickel

☀️ Sun

~7 ft door

🌍 Earth

~0.8 in nickel

109×

Earths fit across the Sun's diameter

And we think we're significant 🙃

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Human Body

You are outnumbered

Your gut has 3× more microbes than your body has cells

3-5 lbs

of bacteria in you rn

1,000+

species in your gut

You're more bacteria than human 🫠

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A note from Jamie: These visualizations are for educational and entertainment purposes. Data sourced from scientific research, historical records, and published surveys. Figures are directional—methodologies vary by study.

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