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A Matter of Life or Death

On average, 100 people choke to death every year on ball-point pens. And beware of toothpicks. They are the objects most often choked on by Americans.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

The odds of being killed by space debris are one in five billion.

You are more likely to be killed by a donkey than in a plane crash.

200 people a year die in avalanches.

It is possible to drown and not die. Technically, “drowning” refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not the resultant death.

During the Crimean War, the British army lost ten times more troops to dysentery than to battle wounds.

The New York City morgue in the Bronx is sometimes so busy that relatives are given numbers and asked to wait in line to be called to identify the body.

A total of 55,700 Americans are injured each year by jewellery.

About 1000 people commit suicide on any one day.

Monday has been found to be the most favoured day for suicides, and April the most popular month.

Three times more men commit suicide than women. But three times more women attempt suicide than men.

Over 50 billion aspirin tablets are taken worldwide every year.

Each day is longer than the previous one by 0.00000002 sec. This works out at 13 sec. each century.