Clumsy Australians

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Graeme

Graeme

1st Sergeant
4,615
2,819
May 31, 2007
From the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, 2000.


Each year 3 Australians die while using their tongue to test if a 9-volt battery still works.

In 1998, 142 Australians were injured by not removing all the pins from new shirt packaging.

Each year around 60 Australians are injured using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

Between 1996 and 2000, 31 Australians died by watering their Christmas tree while the 'fairy lights' were plugged in.

In the three years prior to 2000, 19 Australians died by eating Christmas decorations they believed were made of chocolate.

Hospitals in Australia reported 4 broken arms in 1999 after cracker-pulling incidents.

Between 1997 and 2000, 101 Australians had to have broken parts of plastic toys pulled out of the soles of their feet.

In 1998, 18 Australians were seriously burned after trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

A massive 543 Australians were admitted to casualty in 1997 and 1998 after opening bottles of beer with their teeth or eye socket.

In 1997, 8 Australians cracked their skull after passing out while throwing up into the toilet.
 
Hmmm - how do you die by putting a 9v bat on your tongue? I've done that plenty of times, and obviously haven't expired yet. There's not much of a load coming out of that little battery.

BTW - What's a jumper?
 
mkloby said:
Hmmm - how do you die by putting a 9v bat on your tongue? I've done that plenty of times, and obviously haven't expired yet. There's not much of a load coming out of that little battery.
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I'm thinking 'micro-shock' producing cardiac arrhythmias. The elderly, with a suspect sino-atrial node would be more susceptible. Just a theory!
Whereas you would be fit, with a healthy heart.


BTW - What's a jumper?
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American equivalent would be Sweater or Pullover(?)
 
1. In average a woman smiles more often than a man?
2. Of all the foreigner who travel to the UK about 50% visit London?
3. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?
4. Only 12 people have ever set foot on the Moon?
5. 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused?
6. Only 10 people out of every 3 million in the world get the opportunity to see a volcanic eruption in their lifetime?
7. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom?
8. If you fart constantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb?
9. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes?
10. 40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet?
11. Chickens out populate humans 1:4, for every human there are 4 chickens?
12. Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts?
13. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married?
14. The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime?
15. 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so?
16. On average, people move house every 7 years?
17. There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK?
18. According to Gillette, around 70% of women who remove hair, do so by shaving?
19. Women blink nearly twice as much as men?
20. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year?
21 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats?
22. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year?
23. More than 50% of the world's population lives in Asia?
24. A poll by an American Animal Hospital Association revealed that 33 percent of dog owners admitted to talking to their dogs on phone or leaving an answering machine message when away?
25. A cow farts about 600 litres of metangas every day. That is enough to fill up 40 party ballons?
26. Conception occurs more often in December than any other month?
27. On average, a person laughs about 15 times each day?
28. A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch?
29. The average person walks about 65,000 miles in a lifetime?
30. More than six billion hot dogs are consumed annually in the US?
31. The smallest book in the Library of Congress is Old King Cole measuring just 1/25 inch by 1/25 inch, or about the size of a period at the end of this sentence?
32. You breathe about ten million times a year?
33. A supertanker can carry as much as 747,000 tons of oil?
34. A 1997 survey showed that 75% of women made their bed every day, whilst only 45% of men admitted to performing this daily chore?
35. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil?
36. Sweden was the first country in the world to keep population statistics?
37. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year?
38. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1?
39. The number of twin births have more than doubled since the early 1970s?
40. In excess of 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women have stated that at least once they've forgotten their wedding anniversary?
41. There are over 60 towns in USA where the word turkey appears in the name?
42. 22 percent of twins are left-handed? In the non-twin population the number is just under 10 percent?
43. If you attempted to count to stars in our galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all?
44. Rougly 75% of a living tree is composed of water?
45. Rats destroy an estimated 33% of the world's food supply each year?
46. Drivers kill more deer than hunters?
47. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants?
48. If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people?
49. Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials?
50. The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City?
51. The average criminal sentence length is 137 years in Colombia?
52. Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day?
53. The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic?
54. The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees?
55. 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day?
56. Elderly Dutch and Swedish are the most likely to live in old-age homes. 57. Elderly Japanese are the most likely to live with their children?
58. Women make up 49% of the world population?
59. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals?
60. Nearly a quarter of people in Monaco are over 65?
61. The top six countries for percentage of houses with five rooms or more are all English-speaking?
62. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes?
63. The ten most generous countries are all in Europe?
64. China's labor force stands at 706 million people, almost three times that of Europe and twice that of North and South America combined?
65. Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world - and the highest rate of female suicide?

Still trying find something for Swedes....:lol: :lol:
 
As a Firefighter I was wondering the same thing Marcel.

But I guess ya gotta blame some dirty rat for da fire.
 
"Did you know that..... "

Yep!

BTW # 34 - it's 76.834 actually :twisted: :twisted:

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On the battery thing - IIRC it's down to luck/chance, if the charge coincides with your heart rhythm at a certain point in its cycle it's enough to stop it
 
63. The ten most generous countries are all in Europe?

Based on what statistic I imagine... and what is the definition of generous here???
 
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