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Some people like to live dangerously. They seek out adrenaline in everyday life and through extreme sports. Others prefer to stay safe and, preferably, on the ground. A study conducted in Britain found that 6 in 10 people think of themselves as 'risk-averse.' 69% of the respondents say they're afraid of the consequences those risks might have.

We all probably try to steer away from the things we know are dangerous. But how many unknown dangers are lurking around us? One Internet user was probably wondering the same when they decided to ask: "What's something most people don't realise will [unalive] you in seconds?"

People love morbid stuff on the Internet, so the thread quickly climbed to the top of Reddit's trending content and garnered over 16,000 replies. If you're prone to anxiety over your health, read at your own risk, Pandas!

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are A family friend who taught me how to drive many many years ago told me you have to drive like everyone else on the road is an absolute idiot and has no idea what they're doing. I never forgot that.

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Everyone else on the road IS an idiot AND has no idea what they are doing!

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Water. People often do not respect water and how it can quickly kill you.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are As a canadian let me just warn ya

**moose** 🫎

they’re much, MUCH larger and wickedly stronger than people think. for some reason people just don’t realize that these baddies are MASSIVE. psa: they are nowhere even *remotely close* to a deer!!

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Large herbivores. They've evolved defenses to make large predators rethink their life choices. They will mess you up.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Texting while driving.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Hey, that small invertebrate you found by the sea?

Please leave it alone.

Went snorkeling with a guide a long time ago in some coral reefs. 

When we saw a shark, the guide was like "Nah, don't worry. They're chill." Then we saw a tiny purple jellyfish, and the guide was like "WHATEVER YOU DO, stay away from this thing, it'll paralyze you and then you'll drown."

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A little over simplified. Meaning: Situational Awareness is key - wherever you may be. You don't want to bump into a Tiger Shark while frantically avoiding that purple jellyfish. Though I don't know how a guide would communicate all that while SNORKELING. Just be aware at all times, life isn't easy.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Moving water.

It's freaking dangerous. Water is heavy so when it's moving it has a lot of energy. It might not feel too bad walking through knee deep flowing water but if you fall the water will have more area to push on. You may not be able to get yourself on your feet again.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dropping a gallon of water on your foot will give you some idea.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Manipulations by chiropractors.
And if the manipulation doesn't kill you, it can certainly cause paraplegia or quadriplegia, vertebral dissections.
The sad part is that chiropractors will never own up to the fact and they'll actually claim that patients are coming in with an active stroke. Unfortunately a lot of their research is skewed. I would highly recommend looking into the American medical association, particularly neurologist to see the detrimental effects that a chiropractor can have. It's unfortunate how many people die secondary to a chiropractic manipulations - particularly in the neck and back.

For reference, I am a occupational therapist who has seen plenty of paraplegics and quadriplegics secondary to chiropractic injury.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My aunt is paralyzed from a chiropractor. It was about 20 years ago and he moved her spine incorrectly and it messed her nerve up. She’s been in a wheelchair since.

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Hippos. Put it this way: Steve freakin' Irwin was afraid of hippos! If something is so dangerous that the croc wrestler is scared of them you do not mess with it! 

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are So I was trying to look up a DIY mixture to remove mold/mildew recently. A surprising number of sources (including an AI tool) suggested mixing bleach and vinegar.

Rule of thumb. Never mix anything for cleaning, there are far too many chemical weapons that can accidentally be made.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are The Great Lakes. Just this past weekend 4 people decided to go in the water near my house even though the beach was under red flag warning and high waves. 3 got pulled out by a Good Samaritan when they got in trouble. Three days later and coast guard and fire department still hasn’t found the body of the 4th one. Rip tides are real. Weather kicks up fast. The Great Lakes are huge and dangerous. This is not your local pontoon lake.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Falling from regular standing height. My mom fell forward holding some groceries, got her arms out to brace her fall and still broke her wrist and jaw in multiple places. Grandma broke her hip just falling out of bed. Falling is dangerous

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not the falling part that's dangerous, it's the thing you land on that's the problem lol but yes, falling is dangerous

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Horses

we've lived with them for so long that unless you spend regular time around them, you don't know just how unbelievably dangerous they are. It's a good thing they're so stupid or we'd be f****d.

Movies have people believing they're these docile creatures that live to serve humans. Those are the ones that have been trained *extensively*. They are otherwise 1500 pounds of dumb panicky hair-trigger muscle.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Dumb panicky hair-trigger muscle" could also work for some humans, be careful out there lol

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Do not f**k with koalas they are capable of ending you. Having held one at Lone Pines, those adorable bastards have steak knives for hands and get scared of falling really easily.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Squirrels. I once saw a kid chase a squirrel into a corner, and that squirrel jumped on his face and clawed him to bits. Kid was fine afterwards, but he'll have some scars to remember that day by.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Things under huge amounts of tension. Boat lines, garage door springs, various other cables or springs used in industrial settings. These can send you back to the character select in an instant.

Capacitors. Maybe most people don't interact with them, but for those that do (DIY electronics repairs), a typical PSU in a home computer have capacitors that can kill you. Shocking, I know.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These can send you back to character reset, best way of saying un alived I've heard

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Brake-checking a semi (you’d think it’d be obvious but nope).

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you see someone you think is speeding, just move aside and get out of the way. Let the police find them and fate make the determination how they'll learn their lesson. The road is the best place to mind your own business.

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I stopped two German or Austrian tourists from touching a poisonous frog in Colombia. They had no idea. They were inches away with their phones.

I hadn't spoken German in years, but man my panic reaction brought those words to the tip of my tongue real fast.

Don't mess with wildlife, especially outside your own habitat.

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A motorcycle. Crashed my Harley and have had 3 spinal surgeries, had 7 broken ribs, torn rotator cuffs....if I hadn't been wearing my helmet (which I didn't for years trying to be a tough guy/ idiot) I probably wouldn't be writing this. Helmet was scraped down to the inner layer.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Maternal hemorrhage. I am routinely shocked by expectant mothers who want to give birth at home, arguing that they can always transfer to the hospital "if there's a problem." No, no they can't. If the wrong type of bleeding begins, they'll be dead before the ambulance gets there.

Edit: as noted below, in some countries, certified nurse midwives attend home births with medications they can use to treat hemorrhage. However that is NOT the case in the US, where insurance requirements mean that most CNMs must be attached to hospitals. In many American states, "midwife" is not a restricted term, so self-described midwives with no qualifications at all get hired to attend home births. The results are a fairly predictable higher mortality rate for home births vs. hospital births in America.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

YES. I watched my daughter almost bleed out giving birth. And she was in a hospital. A lot of worried looking nurses and doctors coming and going for a while. They finally got it stopped, she was pale and super weak but was lucky. She and her sister were home births. We were poor, it was affordable, everything went fine. But if I knew all I know now back then, I probably would have been afraid to do home birth.

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The heat, it is too damn hot.

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Grapefruit. It interacts with a *ton* of medication.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also Seville oranges, limes, pomelos and maybe pomegranate. Here's the list (PDF) https://www.cmaj.ca/content/suppl/2012/11/26/cmaj.120951.DC1/grape-bailey-1-at.pdf

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Cat bites. Their teeth are very thin like needles, and oftentimes after a deep puncture, the top layer of skin closes leaving infection trapped inside from all the bacteria in their mouths. If you ever get bitten by a cat, go to urgent care asap for antibiotics. Even if it seems fine at first. Waiting even just a few days can lead to sepsis (blood infection) which can be deadly.

I work in veterinary medicine, and one of my coworkers almost lost her hand from a cat bite infection.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! When we were children my sister got bit by a cat. She did not want to get in trouble with our parents so she washed and bandaged it without telling anyone. Two days later she was in the hospital on an IV because of blood poisoning!

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Enclosed spaces. Don't assume it's the air you're used to down there.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Inhaling too much helium.

I worked at a party store and we had someone rent a helium tank. We rented them by the week and then every week after there was a charge done to your card immediately. After 3 months we got a call from the renter's daughter asking if we could please stop charging her father's card. He had used the helium tank commit [self-harm] the day he rented the tank and we had charged him over $1,500 in the 3 months since.

It became a huge thing where we had to actively tell people once you fill your lungs completely with helium that the avioli can no longer process oxygen correctly. So while it's all fun and games to have that squeaky voice one super deep breath can end your life.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They'll stop charging when you return the tank. Helium is a limited resource, we should really stop using it to fill stupid balloons that end up polluting or worse

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Pushing someone.

My friend’s father got into a verbal altercation with someone. They pushed him. He fell and hit his head on the pavement. Lights went out immediately and he was brain dead. They had to take him off life support not even 12 hours later. So sad every time I think about it. He was a good man.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Fistfight. One wrong punch and you’re in prison for killing a dude.

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Selfies in high places.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Rust. If you run into a hole in the ground with rusty stuff inside, that does not get good ventilation. Dont go in. Rust is iron combined with oxygen. And it can eat all of the oxygen in the air. And fun fact, your body cant tell how much oxygen is in the air, but does sense carbon dioxide is there. So you dont know you are going until you are dead.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I see a rusty hole in the ground, my inclination is not to go inside. But thank you for the warning.

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Running across the street and assuming the car sees you and will stop.

Just wait for the light.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never just assume drivers care about your life. It could be your right to cross and their obligation to stop, but that doesn't mean they'll comply. Hold your hand out to indicate you're cross, look at the driver, look back for any vehicles wanting to turn onto the street your crossing from behind you, look for any cars not slowing down in every lane.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Carbon Dioxide.

People have died playing with dry ice.

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What happens is that high concentrations of CO2 cause your blood to absorb CO2 instead of oxygen. Since normal Oxygen levels are 21% and CO2 levels are 0.03%, the blood loses CO2 to the atmosphere and absorbs oxygen. However, if CO2 levels are too high, blood starts binding CO2 instead of oxygen, and we suffocate at the cellular level, even though oxygen levels are high enough. When CO2 is around 4% of the atmosphere, it can kill you, even if oxygen remains at 21%.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are One simple wrong move on the highway.

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Hi I’m in EMS.

Please wash your hands before you eat stuff, so many people come in contact with so many other people who have illnesses that can be contracted by eating with unclean fingers. Even if you’ve been around people you know all day you never know who they’ve been around, and sometimes it’s not even illnesses rather random germs AND I KNOW THIS IS OBVIOUS TO SOME PEOPLE but next time you see a local EMS crew eating food with their funny colored gloves on it’s because we’ve made a habit even if we hadn’t run any calls that day.

Of course if you aren’t in healthcare you’re not being exposed to as much but sometimes you need a reminder just how dirty the outside world really is lmao.

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Wash your hands as soon as you get home is also good advice. Mind blowing how many people discovered hand washing during COVID

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Garage door springs. let a pro fix it. Mine snapped a bunch of years ago and it tore a 3 foot long hole in my garage door in a fraction of a second.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Inhalents. I tried them once in high school. 2 weeks later a kid at another school died from using them THE FIRST TIME.

A couple weeks after that, I was offered them again. I told them f**k no and asked if they hadn't heard about the dead kid. They looked at me and seriously replied, "Oh yeah, it's okay. He used the wrong brand. He used the blue bottle, instead of the purple bottle.".

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My brother used them in high school and he’s dumb af now, they definitely kill brain cells

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Carbon monoxide. well, minutes, but still.. it's odorless and colorless. most likely, you won't even know.

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An allergic reaction to something you have been exposed to countless times before.

My mom was in her 40s when she suddenly had a reaction to a bee sting and almost died.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Indeed. My sister was a huge fan of seafood and ate it all the time until she was 19 or so when out of nowhere anaphylaxis, a trip to the hospital and a fun application of chest paddles. It happened at least once more before it was agreed that she was now deathly allergic.

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Entering or falling into a septic tank. Deaths are often not isolated to one person, but also the people who come in after in an attempt to rescue them.

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Not looking right and left when crossing a street.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or even when driving. Once you look one way then the other way, look back toward the first way again. Even though it might only take a second or less to turn your head, still something can come from the other side real quick.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Hitting your head against a wall.

There's a pretty famous story about a basketball player who missed a shot, got annoyed and headbutted (if I remember correctly) the post the hoop is attached to.

Didn't kill him but paralysed him from the neck down for life.

People do die from doing this, I've seen people get mad and headbut something 100 times, but do it wrong once and that's it, you're dead.

Edit: He made the shot but was called out got a foul so it didn't count, he died 13 years later. Someone has replied with a video link but... watch at your own discression, its not nice.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Boban Jankovic was his name. Found the vid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wjfxCmXdo&pp=ygUOQm9iYW4gamFua292aWM%3D

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Electricity, particularly involving overhead wires.

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Also static electricity. With high voltage lines you don't have to get anywhere close to touching them to get shocked. Once in my ignorant youth a friend and I climbed a high voltage line tower. We were only about half way up when we started getting shocked. We were FAR from the actual lines. Obviously it was not the full shock of the lines. But it was enough to maybe make someone lose their grip and fall and we were high enough up for the fall to have maybe killed us. If you have been around farms - think about the level of shock from an electric fence.

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I would venture to say most people realize what can kill you instantly but less commonly discussed would be dehydration. 


Yes you can die within seconds from it. 


Heart failure is what gets you and if you are already primed for a heart attack due to either unhealthy habits or genetics, dehydration can kill you in seconds. Some drop dead of a widow maker right there on the spot. 


Dehydration truly is a gamble so be cautious with it. Happens a lot in the summer months as people pick up alcohol and energy drinks instead of electrolytes. .

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Don't wait til you're thirsty to drink water. By then, you're already on your way to dehydration. Also, if you find yourself drinking tons of water but never feeling quenched, get some electrolytes. You need salt to replace what is lost in sweat and urine. When sodium levels are too low, water moves into cells and causes them to swell, which can cause a whole range of symptoms, including death. Hyponatremia is real. Hydrate your cells, don't drown them. 😉

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Those green transformer boxes found in people's yards. I've seen so many people sitting on them, climbing them, standing on them, playing on them. Those things transport thousands of volts of electricity and it only takes one second to receive the electric chair treatment.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really? Ours have warning painted on them, even warning to keep 'plantings/shrubs' within so many feet away

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are A rogue brick on the highway.

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are A ruptured aneurysm can kill you in seconds. It's often sudden and without warning, making it extremely dangerous and usually fatal if not treated immediately.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And it can happen to anyone of any age or level of fitness at any time. Sleep tight!

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Poorly designed and manufactured submarines. Milliseconds actually.

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Anyone who works in a shop (hopefully) knows this… but compressed air. Not an uncommon thing for you to use it to blow metal shavings or other debris off your clothes after you’re done working, but if you have even a small cut somewhere and you get the air gun too close you can put an air bubble in your blood stream which will kill you the moment it passes through your heart. From what I’ve been told it is very painful and only takes a few seconds.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dad got a metal shaving in his eye from cleaning something off with his compressor. Fortunately no damage done but it hurt like hell, eye doctor got it out with a strong magnet

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Using a massage gun on your neck...

>*While handheld massage guns are generally safe to use on muscles, using them on the neck can be dangerous. The high vibrations produced by massage guns can injure unprotected areas of the neck, and in rare cases, can cause soft tissue damage or stroke-like symptoms.*.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or, just don't use those oscillating deathguns at all

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Eating polar bear liver. You’ll die of vitamin A poisoning. Vitamin A is not water soluble and eating too much can lead to painful symptoms and death. One polar bear liver has enough to kill over 50 adults.

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If you get hit in the chest at a specific part of the heart's cardiac rhythm, dead. If you accidentally massage your carotid and have a vagal sensitivity, dead. If you have a genetic predisposition for certain arrhythmias and get startled, dead. The heart is a tricksy thing 


Eta this is very rare. However, if you have any family members who have died unexpectedly and young and have a history of fainting for no reason get an EKG asap. .

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Scuba diving. You lose track of time. Stay down a minute too long. That's it.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true. Regulators tell one EXACTLY the time you have left 'breathing thru them" If you're too dumb to look at them and track the time, then you deserve it - and even if you caught it at the late moment, you could still take that last breath and exhale to the surface.

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Electricity. Most people respect it but don't realize how they're playing with their lives when doing things like taking off their nice shoes to check out the flooded basement. Or salvaging caps before properly discharging them. In 40 years I've known 2 people who've been electrocuted, and two others who were hospitalized.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... See my comment for the item about 'things under a great deal of tension', which also mentioned Capacitors.

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Working in oil and gas. More specifically in the field. Many workers forget the risks of their job and can become complacent. One thing goes wrong and you can be instantly dead. Whether that’s inhalation or a simple fire.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was a secretary in an oil company once, the chief engineer was testing two student engineers and asked what they would do if one of them saw the other fall down unconscious. I butted in "run like fun in the other direction" and apparently that was the right answer, ie don't try to rescue anyone without your own breathing gear

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Air in the bloodstream.


Cut to the femoral artery in your leg. Though a lot of men have seen Band of Brothers.

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Nitrogen poisoning. It is odorless and scentless.

Edit: it's not exactly poisoning. More like asphyxiation.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since nitrogen makes up almost 80% of our atmosphere, it's hardly likely to think that it would be poisonous. Also, it's not too much nitrogen, it's not enough oxygen.

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Topical Benadryl if you use too much. Or if you combine it with alcohol. I used it on vacation for mosquito bites and forgot. Had a drink of alcohol a while later. Fell asleep and was barely breathing.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm surprised a topical antihistamine would have such an impact! Sometimes I will only take 1/2 of a Benadryl pill because I am very affected by it, and they make me very drowsy - I would see how mixing that with alcohol could be very bad.

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Though not many people have access to it, hydrogen fluoride or HF will kill you colder'n a mackerel of it gets into your bloodstream.

Flourosis of your bones is a nasty way to check out.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had to work with HF at a previous job. I knew it was dangerous so I wanted to write an SOP about how to handle it savely, so I did a litte bit of research. One paper mentioned that a chemical burn the size of a finger nail can kill you. The problem is not the acidity but the fact that HF binds calcium, which is needed in your nerves. So yeah, it's a potent neurotoxin.

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Swimming in cold water. Even 15C or lower can kill in seconds due to shock.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is more about a sudden plunge, shocking the body. 15C is 59F. I've swum in water in the 40s, and many times colder than 59. But never just run and dive in. Things like inner tubing and rafting and a little bit just swimming. But all situations where at one point or another I was immersed.

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