A highly-cited “fact” states that deaths from falling coconuts greatly outnumbers deaths by shark attacks. Classic Urban Legend While it is a fact that people have been occasionally killed by falling coconuts, the number of people killed per year – often cited as 150 – is the basis of a modern urban legend which is revived every year during Discovery Channel’s popular Shark Week. […]
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