5 Unexpectedly Deadly Things

You could die when you least expect it. Especially if you don't expect these

things

to make you die. Let's talk about that ♪ (theme song) ♪ - Good morning mythical! - Being alive is dangerous. We all know that. Today we open your eyes to the seemingly harmless elements that are right under your nose, but are lurking, waiting, ready... (scary voice) to take your life. (normal voice) So this episode is about scaring... - You're scaring me. - Take off your pants. No, well, you won't be scared. It's like if you were wearing shorts, you would make them fall a little.

That doesn't make any sense to me, but... We're going to make your pants drop by talking about

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that could... kill you that you didn't know about. - Maybe we'll help you survive something. Well. It is winter. You look up, see some beautiful ice cones hanging from that awning, and you say, "Oh, those are beautiful." And then he stabs you to death! Well that's what happens, much more than you think. Icicles kill people. Icicles are

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ice swords that impale people in public. Ice swords? Ice cones? Fifteen people a year, in the United States alone, die from falling icicles. -Actually? -Yeah.

But what is the anatomy of this? - It's like they just happen... - I don't know where it hits you. - Have you touched a weak point? - It depends on. Do people like to look up and enter through the eyeball? - I mean, if an icicle... - That could have happened to someone - ...hits you in the head. - It could go into someone's mouth. - This is morbid. - (gasps) I'm going to try to swallow that falling ice sword. No, what happens is that you're outside, minding your own business, and a big cone of ice falls on you. - Impale. - Just to give you an idea of ​​what this might look like, there's an article from 1903 - in the New York Times...-- - Wow, you dig deep! ...about a certain Charles Daniels.

Not Charlie Daniels. This guy was an officer. It said: "Charles Daniels was killed last night by a huge icicle which fell on him while making his rounds and cut off the top of his head." - Oh my God! So he's not pretty. It's definitely not pretty. It's ugly. It's not a good way to go, but if you survive one of these icicles, you'll get a new body piercing. And it is sterile because it is very cold. Alright, I have a good one for you. Imagine you're craving a snack and you walk up to a vending machine and hand over that dollar.

Do you find yourself thinking, "I could die at any moment?" - I've thought about that. - Well, listen, vending... - Depending on the item. Vending machines are giant, monolithic body shredders. Have you heard about this? Death by vending machine? - Between 19... - Until now I haven't been afraid of vending machines. Well, welcome to reality. Between 1978 and 1995, at least 37 people were killed by a vending machine. - ♪ (8-bit music) ♪ - (Rhett) That's no achievement. These things can weigh up to a thousand pounds, and do you know how that happens? Yes. I have seen people do this. I have seen that? - It shakes, rattles and rolls, man.

No. You get your candy. Your chocolate bar is coming out, and that coil starts spinning and you start to get hypnotized by it, and then you're about to fall. You grab that thing and go, “Aah!” A thousand pounds for you. - That has never happened... - Hypnotization. That never happened. You shouldn't spread things like that. Alright, they shake it like a Polaroid photograph! And then it falls on them. I mean, is it really worth buying that package of Famous-Amos cookies... - Yes. - ...to risk getting crushed? - No! - Listen, people risk their lives for food.

That's what the history of humanity is about. It's exposing yourself, risking your life for a little food. That's human existence, man. So someone being killed by a vending machine is simply continuing the tradition of humans. Vending machine manufacturers recommend not tilting vending machines more than 20 degrees. - That's why I take my transporter - every time...-- - That's why you had a transporter. ..order something from a vending machine. Who, in his anger, pulls out a transporter? 19 degrees, Barb. You will not die. Well! (Jamaican accent) You're on a tropical vacation, man... (normal voice) and oh God... - I'm trying to set the stage... - (Jamaican accent) Yeah, man. - ...but it's not really working. - Yes man.

And you're drinking your little cocktail out of a coconut, and the next thing you know, BAM! A magical orb of death hits you on the head and it's a boogeyman. - The one you were drinking? - No, the one that fell from a tree. Interestingly, a lot of people cite this. (hoarse voice) "150 people die every year from coconuts falling on their heads around the world. In fact, more people die from coconuts than from shark attacks." - (imitates doorbell) (normal voice) That's not true. That's an urban legend. But it is a strong urban legend due to a 1984 research paper by Dr.

Peter Bars, titled "Injuries due to falling coconuts." People misapplied or misinterpreted their data and came up with the figure that 150 people die every year. Is not true. There are probably a couple every two years. If you go to the Wikipedia entry on Death by Coconut (what is it), you will see that every two years there is a report. Like August 2010. A 69-year-old man was killed by a coconut that fell from a 12-meter-high palm tree while he was sitting in a rocking chair outside his home in Melgar, Colombia. I mean, this is cartoon stuff. Like... (clicking sound)... you know, I know what sound it's going to make and everything.

However, this is blunt trauma. Because when it falls, that thing weighs four and a half pounds on average. Palm trees can be eight stories high. So when that thing picks up that speed, it's like a ton of force - on top of your head... - Oh God. - I think this requires... - Instant death. I think this requires helmets on the beach. I mean, next time I go on a tropical vacation, I'll wear my Speedo, but I'll bring a helmet and a pair of sunglasses. - It will be like a Men at Work music video. - (Rhett laughs) - (Link) Alright, here's another one.

Ants are usually just a nuisance until they gang up on you and commit suicide! - (laughing) What? Fire ants kill more than 30 people a year. There can now be up to 20 million fire ants in a colony. We know about fire ants because they are in North Carolina. They are. They usually attack small animals, but they kill humans, what? Step on them. Fall asleep near their mounds. For example, don't look at a mound of dirt and say, "Oh, that would make a perfect pillow." - Oh yeah. I mean, it's anaphylactic shock. People are allergic, "allergic." (laughs) - (mockingly) Hey, I think I'm allergic. - (laughs) - I'm allergic to myself. - To the ants.

And there is a correlation if you are "allergic" to bees or wasps. You may be allergic to fire ants. And they are no longer just in the southeast. - They're coming to California. - (whispers) Oh, coming to California. - They're following us here. - Uh oh. Probably not. It's just happening on its own. - If you're a... No. - Are they for us? - No. No to no. - (laughing) We had nothing to do with that. So, A: Don't use a mound of fire ants as a pillow, but you can also try putting them in a death spiral.

You can have the ants follow their own scent trail in a circle, and they will do so until they die. - What do you get? Like a big donut or something? How does this work? Put them on a plate or just direct them where they create a circular path, and they will do it until they die. Or you could just pour molten aluminum into your anthill and make art. - Is that a thing? - It's a thing and it's quite impressive. Well. Now, here in California, we like to use flippy-floppys. - We call them thongs, foot thongs. - I don't.

But they are... (scary voice) instruments of death! (normal voice) Well, not so much instruments of death, but you know? That in the United Kingdom in 20... or 2002. - Twenty-two. More than 55 thousand people went to the hospital with injuries related to flip flops. - 55 thousand! - But they didn't die. Well, some of them may have. - That's not in the statistics. - I hope not. In 2010, there were 200,000 flip-flop-related injuries, costing the British National Aid Service more than £40 million. - That? - Now, you might be saying, "Well, wait. Why are these things dangerous?" It's kind of disappointing. It's like tendinitis and things like that.

Apparently, wearing flip flops is incredibly bad for your joints and tendons. And people, and I'm one of them, get horrible injuries from flip flops. I didn't die, but on my recent vacation a few weeks ago with my family, I was walking in the front yard of the place we were staying and stepped in some mud. And I tried to get my foot out, - and the strap on that thing just... - Did it break? I did a kind of 360 degree spin and I got caught... you know I have a bad back... and I caught myself and thought, "I hope no one saw that." I mean, I could see that if he had been next to a cliff, or something, he could have died.

And now this tendonitis thing has me scared, not to mention the 18,000 types of bacteria in a typical pair of flip flops, including staph bacteria. - Oh. That could kill you. And I'm not talking about bacteria that works for you. I'm talking about bacteria that can kill you. Carnivorous bacteria. Stay away from flip flops! I liked flip flops. I liked icicles. I even liked ants. - Actually? - I mean, they were strong. You should also not wear flip flops around anthills. I don't know. Maybe we'll balance this episode out, one that's the silver lining to all these things that could kill you. but for now just thank you for liking and commenting on this video.

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