What are some scary facts to know?
- More than a billion people around the world will go to bed hungry tonight.
- If you try to stop a sneeze by covering your nose and mouth, you could rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
- Four nuclear submarine wrecks lie on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- A cockroach can live nine days without a head before starving to death.
- A man received a heart transplant from a suicide victim, married the donor's wife, and committed suicide in exactly the same way.
- If you try to venture into space without a suit, you will explode from lack of pressure before suffocating to death.
- The venom of the Australian brown snake is so potent that 1/14,000 of an ounce is enough to kill a human.
- 20% of children report hearing voices.
- It has been predicted that in 2040, the Arctic Ocean will experience its first ice-free summer.
- The venom of the Asian hornet is so potent that it can melt human flesh.
- 75% of the people who died during World War II were civilians.
- More than 7,000 people die each year because of doctors' bad handwriting.
- Approximately 153,000 people die worldwide every day.