Weird Averages

I asked ChatGPT to help me compile some “weird” averages—items most people would not consider. I have not attempted to confirm the veracity of the following list, but here it is:

• The average person unintentionally eats 1–2 pounds of insects per year, mostly through fragments in processed food.
• Humans shed an average of 50–100 hairs a day.
• A TV remote is pressed an average of 1,500 times per year per household.
• Over a lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of three times around the Earth.
• In a typical office setting, the average person who encounters bubble wrap will pop 4–6 bubbles before stopping.
• Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas (an average across species comparisons).
• The average home houses about 30 spiders at any given time, whether you notice them or not.
• The average person spends about six months of their life waiting at red lights.
• Office workers spend an average of 1.5 hours per day searching for misplaced documents, emails, or files.

—Mitchell Hegman