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It seems like the most loved color of the sky is purple!

Colors of the sky

One of the strangest memes on Tumblr is "Do you love the color of the sky" which is an extremely long image showing all the colors of the sky. However, I was curious as to which color of the sky is actually liked the most.

The colors of the sky can be: Blue (cloudless day), white (clouds), gray (cloudy), red (sunset), orange (also sunset), yellow (sunrise), purple (twilight hours), and black (night).

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Colors of the sky

One of the strangest memes on Tumblr is "Do you love the color of the sky" which is an extremely long image showing all the colors of the sky. However, I was curious as to which color of the sky is actually liked the most.

The colors of the sky can be: Blue (cloudless day), white (clouds), gray (cloudy), red (sunset), orange (also sunset), yellow (sunrise), purple (twilight hours), and black (night).

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SPIDERS GEORG

Another well known tumblr post is the post known as "Spiders Georg" which states:

"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave and eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

This post is not only extremely humorous and part of the "hellsite hall of fame", but also explains the world of statistical outliers, a phenomenon where someone takes the average of a set of data, but one person dramatically shifts the average. For example, if there were ten people, and nine of them get $10,000 a year while the last one gets $1,000,000 a year, you could technically make the claim that the average money all ten people get is $109,000 per year, even though 9/10 of these people get less than a tenth of that money.

However, one question I had on my mind is how many spiders would Spiders Georg really have to eat in order for the statistical outlier to be 3 per year instead of 0? This is why I ran the numbers.

There are approximately 8,000,000,000 people on planet earth. I took this approximation because nobody knows the exact number and the number is constantly changing as more people get born. Because of this, Spiders Georg would have to eat approximately 24,000,000,000 spiders a year, which comes out to around 65,753,425 spiders a day, or around 761 spiders every second.

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EVERY ODD NUMBER HAS AN E IN IT

A classic tumblr post is "Every odd number has an E in it". Started by shower thoughts, it has quickly spiraled into a ridiculous conversation with a lot of wrong turns. Today, I will try to explain it.

Let's look at every number from one to twenty and highlight the Es, also checking if they're even or odd.

One: Odd

Two: Even

Three: Odd

Four: Even

Five: Odd

Six: Even

Seven: Odd

Eight: Even

Nine: Odd

Ten: Even

Eleven: Odd

Twelve: Even

Thirteen: Odd

Fourteen: Even

Fifteen: Odd

Sixteen: Even

Seventeen: Odd

Eighteen: Even

Nineteen: Odd

Twenty: Even

Every number after that has at least one of those words in its number. There are exceptions of course, such as thirty fourty, fifty, sixty, etc. but that doesn't matter because every exception is even.

Now, you might notice that there are even numbers with at least one E in them (Eight, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, Sixteen, Eighteen, Twenty) but that doesn't matter either, because the idea is not that every number with an E in it is odd, it's that every odd number has an E in it. An even number can be Even and still have an E.

As for zero, zero is a little complicated whether it's even or odd, but that doesn't matter because it still has an E in it (Zero).

EXTRA NOTES:

The first rebuttal said that 30 and 50 don't have an E in them, that is because they are even. Then, someone said that if you can't split a number evenly, it is odd. While that is true, it doesn't mean 30 and 50 are odd. As the next person explained, 15+15=30 and 25+25=50. However, this next person accidentally said that 25+25=30. Probably a typo.

The next person says 1, 3, 5, and 9. However, he forgot 7. Quite a few people will end up forgetting a number, but nobody ever mentions 11, 13, 15, 17, or 19, even though it's still a good idea to do so.

The next person (besides the person who mentions eight is even and has an e, but I already went over that) says that 2 is odd. This is wrong. 2 is even.

Then someone mentions that 30 and 50 have the "E" sound in their pronunciations. While that is true, it does not matter, as they are both even. Then someone else says 1 is even (A: not true and B: wouldn't matter anyway)

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