21 Harmless Things That Cause A Surprising Number Of Deaths
They say salt is bad for you, but not in the way you're thinking.
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Car accidents. Packs of roving wolves in the street. Flaming cars full of psycho maniacs chasing you down the highway. Falling down. There's lots of ways we imagine ourselves kicking the bucket, because we're morbid people who are frightened by our own mortality.
But it turns out we shouldn't let our imaginations get away from ourselves, because there's a good chance most of us will perish doing something really innocuous. For instance ...
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![TELEVISIONIS BAD FOR YOU. According to figures from the U.S. Consumer Product. Safety Commission. 215 people were crushed to death by falling TV Sets](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/0/531550.jpg?v=1)
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![FACT Ladders Might Actually Bring Bad Luck As Falls From Ladders Cause 355 Deaths A Year In the U.S. Alone! Of the almost 5000 serious injuries relate](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/8/4/531584.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED CON ABOUT 13 CHILDREN A YEAR ARE KILLED BY HOT DOGS. Over 10,000 children end up in the emergency room every year after choking on food. Up to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/7/4/531574.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKEDCON 7 children were strangled to death by window blind cords in 2014 alone. Bonus fact: over the past 30 years there have been more than 300 -r](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/9/8/531598.jpg?v=1)
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![WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU GOT 7-9 HOURS OF SLEEP? If your answer is I can't remember, you should rethink your life because accidents caused by drow](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/6/6/531566.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED CONT GRIM REAPER? TRY GRIMMOWER. H Riding lawnmowers cause an average of 90 deaths a year.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/9/4/531594.jpg?v=1)
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