9個看似謊言的事實：你信嗎？反正我信了

The old adage that "there are lies, damned lies, and statistics" is, funnily enough, rather hard to find an original source for.
俗語有云：“世上有三種謊言：謊言，該死的謊言，以及統計數據”。但有趣的是，很難找到這句話的出處。

It was popularised by the American author Mark Twain, who attributed it to British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
美國大作家馬克·吐溫對英國首相本傑明·迪斯雷利說過這句話，之後就流行開來了。

But we digress.
但是我們要說的不是這個。

Here are nine statistics, courtesy of a Reddit thread, which will make you very much doubt them:
Reddit網站消息人士提供的信息顯示，以下9個數據會讓你深表懷疑：

1) Two out of three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70
（1）在70歲的時候會有三分之二的澳大利亞人會得皮膚癌

The Cancer Council of Australia says that, over past decades, the incidence of skin cancer has risen in Australia - by 60 per cent between 1982 and 2010 in melanoma diagnoses.
澳大利亞癌症委員會稱，在過去的數十年間，澳大利亞患皮膚癌案例呈上漲趨勢，其中從1982年到2010年，黑素瘤患者比例就增加了60％。

Between 1998 to 2007, GP consultations to treat non-melanoma skin cancer increased by 14 per cent, reaching 950,000 visits each year.
1998年至2007年間，全科醫生諮詢機構治療非黑素瘤皮膚癌案例增加了14％，平均每年看診達95萬次。

2) You could fit the world’s population in the boundary of New York City
（2）紐約市就可以容納全世界的人口

However, this would only happen if there were no buildings, the land was perfectly flat and everyone stood bunched together exceptionally tightly, according to calculations by .
不過，waitbutwhy網站計算後稱，前提是那裏什麼建築物也沒有、地勢極其平坦、每個人都緊挨在一起。

3) The average cloud weighs 500 tonnes
（3）每朵雲平均重500噸

As Peggy LeMone of the National Center for Atmospheric Research says, the water density of a typical cumulus cloud is 1/2 a gram per cubic meter.
美國大氣研究中心的佩吉·萊蒙說，通常情況下一朵積雲水汽的密度在每立方米0.5克。

The average size of the same cloud is around a kilometer long, wide and tall, meaning they are around one billion cubic meters in volume.
這樣的一朵雲，平均長寬高都約有1千米，也就是說其體積大約有一百萬立方米。

This means the average water content of a typical cumulus cloud is 500,000,000 grams, or 500 tonnes.
這就意味着一朵普通的積雲水汽含量在5億克，或者說500噸。

4) Samsung accounts for 20 per cent of South Korea's GDP
（4）三星產值佔韓國國內生產總值（GDP）的20％

The electronics company's 2014 revenue was $305 billion, 21.67 per cent of South Korea's 2014 GDP of $1.410 trillion.
2014年，三星這家電子公司的收入達3億5百萬美元，佔到韓國當年14.1億美元GDP的21.67％。

5) Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman empire
（5）《任天堂》（日本電子遊戲公司及其開發的電腦遊戲名稱）和奧斯曼帝國處於同一個時期

The games company was founded as a playing card company in 1889, whereas the Ottoman Empire existed until 1922.
這家遊戲公司1889年成立的時候是一家紙牌公司，而奧斯曼帝國的歷史一直持續到1922年。

Nintendo only developed into a video game company in the 1970s.
《任天堂》直到20世紀70年代才發展成爲一個電子遊戲公司。

6)The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire
牛津大學有着和阿茲特克帝國一樣久遠的歷史

The triple alliance between the city states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan began in 1427, whereas there is evidence of teaching at the University of Oxford as early as 1096.
特諾奇提蘭、特斯科科、特拉科潘三城結盟始於1427年，而有證據證明牛津大學早在1096年就已經開始教學了。

7) In terms of numbers of species, 20 per cent of mammals are bats
（7）就物種種類的數量來說，蝙蝠的種類佔哺乳動物種類總數的20％

There are around 1,240 classified bat species, compared to around 5,400 mammal species.
現有記載的蝙蝠種類就有1240種，而哺乳動物的種類是5400種。

The mammals group is relatively small in itself, as there are around 1.2 million species of animals, 950,000 of which are insects.
哺乳動物本身就是一個種類數量相對比較小的羣體，世界上大約有120萬種動物，其中昆蟲類動物就有95萬種。

8) Six per cent of all humans that have ever lived, are alive now
（8）在地球上存在過的人類中6%的人都還活着

Depending upon population projections at different points in history, slightly over 100 billion homo sapiens are predicted to have been born, ever.
根據歷史上不同時期的人口調查結果顯示，全世界出生人口估計共約有1000億。

The current population of the earth is around 7.3 billion, meaning that today's cohort is roughly seven per cent of all people to tread on Terra.
目前地球上約有73億人口，也就是說目前的人口約佔到在地球上存在過人口總數的7%。

9) Most silent films are lost
大部分的無聲電影已經流失了

Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation has estimated that 90 per cent of American films made before 1929, are gone forever.
馬丁·斯科塞斯成立的電影基金會估計1929年以前製造的美國電影中有90%已經完全不在了。

Most were intentionally destroyed because studios saw no need to preserve them and the material was too expensive to house.
大部分的電影都是被人爲毀壞的，因爲電影公司認爲那些電影已經沒有了保存的價值，而且保存這些電影的成本很高。