The present world is extremely dangerous, obviously this is no doubt. We all know a dangerous neighborhood is a place where nobody wants to come at night and there are many cities in the world that we can never set foot on. Every hour, every day, thousands of people around the world encounter road traffic accidents, even dying when they get into an airplane accident. Floods, fires, earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions and more are human-caused natural disasters that make our world a very dangerous place.
Scientific technology is growing, making our life more comfortable and safe. We find ways to prolong life, methods to treat dangerous diseases. Sometimes, the dangers can be very close to you without your knowledge, from golf clubs to cancers caused by shampoo or just simple things that we often do. .
Here are 23 truths that frighten you about your daily jobs:
1. Watching TV for more than 2 hours a day can reduce 1.4 years of life. If watching TV for more than 6 hours a day can reduce the life expectancy by 5 years.
2. A desk at the office usually has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
3. Golf clubs can also be lethal. An angry golfer tosses his club into the bench. The stick broke, shot back and pierced his heart. The same thing happened with at least 3 people.
4. When threatened, swans become very aggressive. They once flipped the boat, attacked humans on jet skis and strangled the dog to death.
5. 450 grams of peanut butter can have 150 insect debris and 5 animal hairs.
6. A small candle can cause more than 15,000 house fires each year.
7. If you try to stop sneezing, you may have a broken blood vessel in the eyeball.
8. Zippers are one of the most common causes of penile injuries. Each year, 1,700 such injuries are reported from hospital emergency rooms.
9. If you have a habit of wearing rings regularly, the number of bacteria below the ring may be more than the European population (about 730 million people).
10. Bed beds can also be lethal, every year up to 600 people die from falling on the bed to the ground.
11. In Russia, glaciers can kill 100 people a year.
12. Bath causes 340 deaths per year. In fact, the number of people drowning in the bath is 25 times more than the number of deaths from terrorism in the US
13. When lightning hits a building, it can be transmitted through electrical systems, telephone lines, water pipes, TV cables, causing people to touch to be shocked.
14. Texting while driving is the cause of 6,000 deaths every year, in the US alone.
15. Some butterflies don't suck nectar and suck human blood.
16. Candiru fish is a small parasite that lives in South America, famous for its ability to swim upstream of urine into the urethra of people swimming in the river, then sprung their spikes sticking to the host. .
17. Fast food sales staff is a very dangerous job. Since 1998, an average of 4-5 employees have been killed every month, mainly in robberies.
18. Average weight of pads is usually doubled in 10 years, mainly due to accumulation of dust and parasitic bugs.
19. Toothless makes 9,000 Americans injured and hospitalized every year.
20. 15% of the air you breathe at a subway station is human skin.
21. According to the National Safety Council, there are about 12,000 deaths annually due to falling stairs and half of them are falling at home.
22. The probability of death when riding an elevator is much lower than when taking the stairs, but there are still about 27 deaths from an elevator every year.
23. Many shampoo products, soaps, hair dyes and other cosmetic products that contain carcinogens (carcinogens) can cause cancer.
Refer to some more articles:
- 40 interesting facts you didn't know about the Sun.
- 23 false scientific facts that we still believe
- The interesting fact about the universe is not quite the same as what we thought
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