If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try
to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your
head or neck and die.
Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in
the US is contaminated with bacteria.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could
have over 1 million descendents.
You are more likely to be struck by lightning that to be
eaten by a shark. You are more likely to be infected by
flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by
lightning.
If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you
may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish
is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim
inside the body, and flare is barbed fins. It will remain
firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.
When a pilot light in a gas barbecue fails to ignite the gas
jets properly, it is easy for you to inhale gas accidentally
while trying to light it by hand. If this has happened, when
the match does light, sometimes a trail of flame will blaze
from the jet onto your mouth, filling your lungs with fire.
Oddly enough, you would suffocate before burning to death as
the flame would consume the oxygen in every breath you would
take.
The soft plastic headphones used on airplanes create a warm,
moist environment in the ear canal that is ideal for
breeding bacteria. Wearing headphones for just an hour will
increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming
flight had serious gas, then you are sitting on a cushion
full of disease-causing microbes.
Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average,
than good-looking criminals.
Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the
Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep water off
of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads. Scientists and
oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the escaping
plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create
the proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain
reaction.
In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby
cellular telephone captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic
vista in Colorado, sending the passenger over a cliff.
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does
Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations,
implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S.
citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their
vehicles?
More people working in advertising died on the job in 1996
than died while working in petroleum refining.
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