February 15, 2010
Vending machines kill four times more people each year than sharks do.

Plausable - the chances of death by vending machine are 1-in-112,000,000 where as the odds of death by shark attack are 1-in-251,800,000.  A person is about 2.25 times more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark; death by shark attack is typically recorded at zero incidents annually, where as death by vending machine occurs around 2 to 3 times annually.  There could conceivably be 4 vending machine related deaths and 1 shark related death during a particularly unlucky year.

original claim: @OMGFacts; source: Book of Odds

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