25 Scary Facts & Stats About Everyday Life
Peter Pizagalli
Published
12/24/2014
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People & Lifestyle
Be afraid of everything from deadly golf clubs to cancer-inducing shampoos!
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If you sneeze hard enough, you can fracture a rib. But try to suppress a sneeze and you might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck. -
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Watching TV for more than 2 hours a day can shorten your life expectancy by 1.4 year. If you watch TV for six hours daily, you might die 5 years earlier than you would naturally. -
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Many shampoos, soaps, hair dyes and other cosmetic products contain carcinogens that can cause cancer. -
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An average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet -
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Golf clubs can be deadly. An angry golfer flung his club at a bench. The shaft broke and sprung back, piercing his heart. The same thing has been recorded to happen to at least 3 more people. -
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When threatened, swans can be very aggressive. They have been known to capsize boats, attack humans on jet skis, and strangle dogs to death. -
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One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs -
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A lit candle causes more than 15,000 house fires every year. -
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Zipper is the most common cause of penile injuries. The zipper-related genital injuries send 1,700 men to ER each year. -
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If you wear a ring, the number of germs living beneath it could be as high as the entire population of Europe about 730 million. -
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Beds can be deadly. Every year, 600 people die just in the U.S. alone after falling out of bed. -
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Red-colored grocery items like fruit punch and strawberry yogurt are often dyed with carmine, which is made from ground-up cochineal beetles. -
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In Russia, falling icicles kill about 100 people every year. -
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Bath tubes kill about 340 people annually. In fact, Americans are 25 times more likely to drown in their own bathtub than to be killed by terrorists. -
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Once lightning enters a structure, it may run through the electrical system, phone lines, plumbing, and even TV and radio antennas and cables. -
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Texting while driving kills 6,000 people annually in the U.S. alone. -
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Some butterflies have been known to drink blood. -
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Candiru, a tiny parasitic freshwater fish living in South America, is reputedly capable of following a stream of urine to its source where it enters the body, and flares its barbed fins, keeping it firmly embedded in the flesh. -
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In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers. An average of four to five fast-food workers are killed every month, usually during robberies. -
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An average mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10 years due to accumulation of dust mites and dust mite poop. -
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More Americans choke on toothpicks than any other object. Toothpicks injure almost 9,000 people every year. -
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15 percent of the air you breathe in an average metro station is human skin. -
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The National Safety Council reports that 12,000 people die after falling on stairs, with half of these deaths occurring at home. -
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If you decide to take an elevator, the probability that you will die is much lower but annually, elevators still cause the death of 27 people on average. -
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London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine found out 16 percent of cell phones have poop on them.
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