The Deadliest Sports on Earth: Ranked

Taking Preventative Measures

Hunters stress the importance of learning gun safety and practicing the sport as safely as humanly possible. You're supposed to wear alert orange on top of your camo so other hunters can spot you. However, roughly 75 hunters die per year because of hunting accidents caused by their own or someone else's gun. 

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The More You Know

  • The Japanese created a smoke alarm for those who can't hear, which pumps super-spicy wasabi mist into the air to alert them.
  • If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning.
  • Saint Patrick's Day began as a "feast day". To honor him, Christians could put aside their Lenten restrictions on food and alcohol consumption, which is why excessive drinking has become linked to the celebration.
  • When two white-faced capuchin monkeys meet, they say hello by sticking their fingers into each other's noses.
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