Welcome to the first offering of Did you know?, where I strive to bring you random data that you might find useful or at least, interesting, bazaar, wacky, ridiculous, impossible, or debatable. Without further ado…
Did you know? #1
Did you know that on average, more people are killed each year by vending machines than by sharks?
^image source http://www.inyourhead.com/
Quora cites two sources, but there are many more to be found.
“Fact: Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year. How can that be?”
This raises quite a dilemma for parents. What should we do, what could we do, about this frightening statistic? I never imagined it was safer to have my kids swim with the sharks than to buy a soda from a vending machine. Just think about how many vending machines we come in contact with every day! How do you protect yourself and your family? I don’t know about you, but from now on I am going to steer clear of those things. There is another safety measure if you insist on interacting with the killer machine. Don’t rock the vending machine. Apparently, that is how most people are killed by them.
Maybe I’ll go take a leisurely swim with a shark instead.
^image source http://coledecolores.blogspot.com/2013/04/grupos-de-trabajo-3-trimestre.html
Thank you for reading my first Did you know? post, I hope you enjoyed it.
@bonni