25 Everyday Things That Are Surprisingly Dangerous
Turns out it’s not safe to go outside. Or stay inside.
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There are a ton of things in this world that we immediately recognize as dangerous. We're smart enough to avoid them. It's the safe-looking stuff that will get you.
As a public service we asked our readers to find examples of ordinary, inconspicuous stuff that's just lying in wait to kill you.
![Washing your hair in a salon can give you a crippling stroke. It's called beauty parlor syndrome, and it happens when your neck artery gets torn bec](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/6/677336.jpg?v=2)
![SPEED LIMIT 25 More Americans are killed by collisions between motor vehicles and deer... ...than by shark attacks, bear attacks, and alligator attack](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/7/677337.jpg?v=2)
![NERF GUNS, WHICHARE SNONYMOUS WITH SAFE PLAY, HAVE CAUSED A NUMBER OF EYE INJURIES. BLEEDING, TEMPORARY BLINDNESS AND EVEN LONGTERM IGLAUCOMA LIKE sYM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/7/4/677274.jpg?v=2)
![Death by boredom. According to researchers at University College London, bored people are twice as likely to die young because of unhealthy life choic](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/7/3/677273.jpg?v=2)
![Injuries related to eyeglasses sent over 27 OOO people to emergency rooms in a 2-year period. Over 1,000 of them needed to be checked in to the hospit](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/7/2/677272.jpg?v=2)
![Charging your phone overnight under a pillow is as risky as leaving your stove on. The charger gives off heat that has nowhere to gO, which can make t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/3/5/677335.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDOON According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, flying champagne corks are responsible for hundreds of potentially blinding eye injurie](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/7/1/677271.jpg?v=2)
![WARNING: Hand dryers may be hazardous to your health. In one study, jet air dryers dispersed 20X more virus than warm air dryers, and 190X more than p](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/7/0/677270.jpg?v=2)
![GRAGKEDGOM It says right on the package not to stick them in your ear, but people still do. Hundreds of thousands of children end up in emergency room](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/3/677243.jpg?v=2)
![PLAYGROUNDS OF TERROR? The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated there were nearly 1.5 MILLION emergency visits in the U.S. attributed to playg](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/6/5/677265.jpg?v=2)
![CRACRED In 2013, emergency rooms in the US treated 5415 injuries caused by... ...backpacks? Yes, backpacks. Most of these injuries were due to either](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/7/677237.jpg?v=2)
![ESCALATORS INJURE TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE A YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/6/4/677264.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDOON From 1985 to 1995, 17 children were killed by the drawstrings on their clothing The drawstrings got accidentally caught on moving objects w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/6/3/677263.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDDOON B EMO Doctors are asking formanufacturers to change the shape of bread tags because elderly people are accidentally eating them and gettin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/5/5/677255.jpg?v=2)
![Decorative indoor fountains have led to multiple fatal outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease due to how easily they can grow and transmit dangerous bacte](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/4/677244.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDOON You spend a lot of time using the toilet, right? Well, use It with care. On the average, 33,000 toilet-related injuries happen in America e](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/6/0/677260.jpg?v=2)
![Extension cords are the cause of over 4000 home fires and 2000 injuries every year. According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, these occu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/7/677247.jpg?v=2)
![YOUR FISH TANK CAN MAKE YOU SICK. Aquariums can be the source of numerous diseases passed from fish to their human caretakers. The most common are bac](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/6/7/677267.jpg?v=2)
![Country music can make you hurt... if you're white. A 1992 study discovered that the suicide rate among white people goes up when country music is pla](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/6/677246.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED.COM Toy and storage chests can be deadly. Apart from crushing fingers, storage chests have caused head injuries, strangulation, and even suffo](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/6/8/677268.jpg?v=2)
![Falls from SHOPPING CARTS injure more than 24,000 children each year. CRACKED CO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/2/677242.jpg?v=2)
![Be careful on your home treadmill! They resulted in over 24;000 ER visits in 2014alone:](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/1/677241.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCON Snowblowers were the cause of over 2.000 ER visits from 2002 to 2008. Most of the cases were hand injuries sustained while trying to clear](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/6/677236.jpg?v=2)
![Your headphones might be killing you. Blasting music into your ears at high volume not only causes hearing damage, it can lead to hypertension, stroke](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/5/9/677259.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM Researchers at Nottingham University reveal that people have been injuring themselves trying to open stubborn packaging. They found more t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/5/1/677251.jpg?v=2)