Iknowcleaning up the kitchen is the bad , butpleaseput your leftovers away ! ! !
Recently, Redditor u/ObligationPlus953asked, “What’s something simple that can actually kill someone accidentally that isn’t common knowledge?” I’ve gotta be honest — I learned a thing or two reading this thread. So, obviously, I decided to pull some of the most shocking — and most informative — answers (and fact-check them, of course). Without further ado, here are 21 unexpected ways you can die:
1.“A dental infection. I went to grief support meetings, and a woman there lost her son to an impacted tooth that spread infection to his brain.”
2.“Party buses. My wife’s cousin was on one a couple of years ago. They were all dancing on the bus while it was driving on the 101 freeway in LA. She slipped and fell against the door, which gave way. She fell out of the bus and was immediately run over by a car. There wasn’t much left of her, closed casket for sure. She was celebrating her 30th birthday, but instead, she died and left behind 5 kids, all under 10.”
— uracil / bowlskioctavekitten
3.“If potatoes are not stored properly and become rotten, they produce a toxic gas calledsolanineand can make a person unconscious if they’ve inhaled enough, and result in death in some cases. There wasa news articleback in 2013 of an entire family in Russia that was killed by it.”
4.“Playing in a deep hole at the beach. Everyone forgets how heavy dirt actually is.”
— u / GuiltyLawyerandu / Is_Unable
" When I was a little nestling , there was a mental synthesis projection at my school , and there were trenches . They did a demonstration where they take up the strong kidskin in the school day of 1,000 bookman and had him lie down on the stage . Someone placed a pail of soil on his chest , and then he tried to stand up . He could n’t move it . They even suffer the bucket to make certain he would n’t get hurt from it being too much weight . That was educational . "
— uranium / St_Kevin _
5.“A lot of medication interactions. Mucinex DM withantidepressants, Tylenol for ahangover. Always look up the potential drug interactions of medications.Every time.I’ve had doctors give me some deadly cocktails because they neglected to check them against the meds I was already taking. It happens more than you’d think.”
6.“Mixing bleach and ammonia when you clean produces a toxic gas that will make you REALLY sick. "
— u / Any_Assumption_2023
Bleach + ammonia = chloramine gas , which — when inspire — can causecoughing , sickness , curtness of breath , breast nuisance , wheezing , pneumonia , and fluid in the lung .
7.“Leaving food out on the counter.”
8.“Rags covered in linseed oil can spontaneously combust when left in a pile. I randomly discovered this fact in a Reddit post titled, “The new guy burned down our workshop.” A carpenter I know confirmed that this is a real thing. I’ve been getting into refinishing old furniture, so I’m glad I learned this now. You’d think it’d be more common knowledge!”
— uracil / doctor_x
According toNASA , this is a chemical reaction known as auto - oxidisation . Essentially , flaxseed crude oil — which is a " self - ignition system combustible material " — reacts with the oxygen in the zephyr and can spontaneously heat , thus causing a fire .
9.“Cheerleading. I had an accident and almost died because one of my teammates lost their balance while I was on top, and I fell. I broke my neck and I haven’t been able to walk or move most of my body again since.”
10.“Flowing water that is only inches deep can still have the strength to sweep you away if you’re not careful.”
— uracil / akumamatata8080
" When I was a kidskin , one of my friends go this means . The family was crossing a shallow river in a Landcruiser Troopcarrier with rescind reprieve , and the undercurrent embroil the car away immediately . The mummy , dad , and babe head for the hills in sentence , but my mate ( around 7 years previous ) could n’t undo his seatbelt tight enough and drowned . "
— u / Mike9601andu / commiecomrade
11.“Pressure washers are quite lethal.”
12.“Hitting your head.r/TBIis full of stories about simple slips and falls that resulted in death and lasting effects. I simply fell on ice at work once.Bam!Unconscious. I woke up saying I was OK but got talked into getting in an ambulance. I started dying in the ambulance from a severe brain bleed. I was in a coma and was expected to die, but I survived. I lost most of my memory, emotional stability, the ability to easily make new memories, and a ton of IQ. Still…in all, I’m not dead!”
— atomic number 92 / cbelt3
13.“Garage door springs.”
14.“A grape. My wife had a friend/coworker whose young daughter choked to death in front of her and her mother. They tried to dislodge the grape, but nothing worked. By the time an ambulance got there, the girl was brain dead. It’s about the worst thing I can imagine as a parent. We were cutting our kids' grapes in half until they were 10 after that happened.”
— u / jpiro
15.“Giving little babies water to drink. It doesn’t have to be much;water intoxicationcan kill them very easily.”
16.“Slipping down the stairs. Yes, some people know stairs can be dangerous, but many don’t realize how deadly residential stairs can be.”
— u / Parking_War_4100
" Did that . Got a concussion and five staples in my read/write head . "
— u / thebeamingbean
17.“Blowingan air compressor in someone’s butt hole. I know it’s a weird one, but itkeeps happeningin India.”
— u / CopperTop_TX
18.“Tylenol. The dangerous dosage is only about four times the therapeutic dosage.”
19.“Going to sleep while drunk and choking on your own vomit. Always lay your drunk friends on their side and lift their chin to open their airways. DO NOT lay them on their backs. My friend died from this at age 32.”
— u / K8syk8
20.“Ladders. People think you have to fall far to get hurt or die. Eight feet is plenty.”
21.And finally, “Confined spaces. If it only has one way in and out, especially if it is below ground, there is a very real possibility that there isn’t enough oxygen in there to support life. Even something as simple as rusting metal can remove the oxygen from the air, and if there isn’t airflow going through the space, theoxygen-depleted airwon’t be replaced. Other processes can remove oxygen or produce actively toxic gases. This sort of thing often kills more than one person, as the first person to find the victim goes in to rescue them and becomes the second victim.”
— uracil / SuspiciouslyMoist
Note : Submissions have been edited for distance , clarity , and factual accuracy .
