About 150,000 people die worldwide every day.

Malapropism — using the wrong similar-sounding word — is named after Mrs. Malaprop in Sheridan's 'The Rivals' (1775).

More people are killed each year by vending machines falling on them than by sharks.

You are more likely to die from falling than from drowning.

The highest ever recorded ski jump is over 253 meters, achieved by Stefan Kraft in 2017.

The book still had her name inside it.

Every year, more people are killed by vending machines than by sharks.

Serial killers are statistically rarer than pop culture suggests — the FBI reports fewer than 50 active at any time in the US.

The tea bag was invented by accident when Thomas Sullivan sent tea samples in small silk bags and customers brewed tea with them still in the bags.