Incredibly Bizarre Death Statistics

Texting while driving kills 6,000 annually in the U.S. alone

A study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) reports that a driver's risk of collision is 23 times greater when they are texting.

Hippos kill 2,900 People Annually in Africa

Many experts believe that the Hippopotamus is the most dangerous animal in all of Africa. Weighing up to 8,000 pounds, a Hippo can gallop 18 mph and have been known to upset boats for no reason and bite the passengers with their huge, sharp teeth. Not only that, but Hippos are aggressive, unpredictable and have no fear of humans. People die most often when they get between a hippo and deep water or between a mother and her calf

Falling out of bed kills 450 people annually in the U.S.

According to the Center for Disease Control, falling out of bed accounts for 1.8 million emergency room visits and over 400 thousand hospital admissions each year. The very young and the very old are most at risk, and with decreased stability as we age, people over the age of 65 tend to fare the worst when falling.

Icicles kill 100 people per year in Russia

Each year dozens are killed when sharp icicles fall from snowy rooftops and land on hapless victims on the sidewalks below.

Jellyfish kill 20-40 people per year in the Philippines alone

While most jellyfish are not deadly, some varieties can cause anaphylaxis, which can be fatal.

Dogs kill 34 people per year in the U.S

There are approximately 4.7 million dog bite victims annually in the U.S. and 1,000 Americans are treated in emergency rooms as a result of dog bites every day. Most of these victims are children who were bitten in the face

Ants kill 30 people per year

There are over 280 different species of ants that can kill, and the fire ant and Siafu ants of Africa are among the most deadly. Since they live in colonies up to 20 million strong, once an attack begins ants can easily overpower their prey. Most reports of deaths are due to people falling asleep near an ant hill and succumbing to anaphylactic shock from countless ant bites and venom

Roller Coasters kill 4 people per year

Overall, the risk of injury while riding a roller coaster is very low. In the U.S. people take about 900 million rides per year, and only about 1 in 124,000 result in an injury.
However, studies show that between the years 1994-2004 there were 40 deaths from roller coasters total, and currently the annual death rate is about 4 per year in the U.S.A.

50 Amazing & Unknown facts

 

50 Amazing & Unknown facts!

1. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.


2. The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.


3. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.


4. Ants never sleep!


5. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.


6. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.


7. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.


8. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


9. Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone


10. hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years.


11. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.


12. Butterflies taste with their feet.


13. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.


14. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


15. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


16. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.


17. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.


18. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”


19. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.


20. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.


21. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.


22. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.


23. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.


24. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.


25. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.


26. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.


27. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.


28. Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.


29. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.


30. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.


31. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why!


32. The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles.


33. Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.


34. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.


35. There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”


36. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.


37. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
    The original name for butterfly was flutterby.


38. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.


39. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.


40. Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.


41. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.


42. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.


43. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.


44. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”


45. All Polar bears are left-handed.


46. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.


47. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”


48. Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family.


49. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.


50. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.