Last summer, the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care in India found that people worldwide died in selfie-related accidents between and , compared to just 50 people killed by sharks. While deaths over a seven-year period may not sound excessive, selfie-related fatalities are on the rise. Tourist dies after taking a selfie near a waterfall in Thailand. A French tourist died on Thursday after he slipped and fell from a waterfall in Ko Samui, Thailand, authorities said. The year-old man fell from the Na Mueang 2 waterfall, the same spot from which a Spanish tourist died in July.
A study of news reports showed that there were selfie deaths in incidents reported globally between October and November , with the highest occurrences in India, followed by Russia, United States, and Pakistan. The mean age was 23 years old, with male deaths outnumbering female about three to one. Between and , people were reported killed worldwide in selfie-related incidents.
Drowning, falls, fires and automobile accidents were among the leading causes of death, according to the report. Despite the risk, people still seem intent on taking incredibly risky selfies like this one. Women who took and posted selfies to social media reported feeling more anxious, less confident, and less physically attractive afterwards compared to those in the control group. This is the first experimental study showing that taking and posting selfies on social media causes adverse psychological effects for women.
It is because digital cameras, especially cheap ones, lack nuance of color, so they emphasize the primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. IN my case it makes my skin look really sallow with red blotches.
As an example, if a shark smells blood, it can go into a feeding frenzy, attacking everything around it to the point where it may even take a chunk out of its tail. Also, some sharks never sleep. If they stop moving, air stops passing over their gills, and they suffocate, so they look like they are always awake, but they are in deep rest.
Sharks kill on average five people a year. While sharks grab the headlines if they attack someone, jellyfish kill eight times as many people every year.
While they look harmless, they can be highly poisonous and are also often hard to see and avoid. As well as causing 40 deaths a year, jellyfish also cause a vastly larger number of injuries than sharks. There is no scenario I can think of where an encounter with a shark could lead to you having to get your buddy to pee on you. For most people the world over, the thought of a solitary fin slicing through the waves in the open ocean is absolutely terrifying.
Shark bites that same year in the US? On average the number of fatalities due to shark bites worldwide ranges between four and six per year. The yearly risk in the U. In contrast, the yearly risk of dying from a vending machine accident is roughly 1 in million. Vending machines are roughly twice as deadly as sharks.
How many people do you think would buy tickets to see Attack of the 50 foot Vending Machine? Vending machines are roughly twice as deadly as sharks. Concerns about death by coconut have been reported extensively in mainstream media sources. The worldwide total of 57 confirmed unprovoked cases was lower than the most recent five-year average of 80 incidents annually. There were 13 shark related fatalities this year, 10 of which were confirmed to be unprovoked.
Of all the species in the world, the largest—and most dangerous—is the saltwater crocodile.
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