ants kill 30 people a year and i'm thinking that's a lot.
i was having a box of late night cracker jacks, bad of me i know, but it's friday and i'm unwinding. the "prize" i received in my box of jacks was a little booklet of fun facts. some of the facts: squirrels are the cause of most power outages (i like that one), a woman lost her wedding ring and found it 16 years later on a carrot in her garden (wow), and ants kill 30 people a year. this is the fact that turned what was briefly a highlight of my night into a bit of an existential crisis.
i put my box of jacks down and went to the google. i searched: how do you die by ants. according to the google, people often fall asleep near anthills and die from being bitten by so many ants. i am currently rethinking my entire approach to laying in the grass. if 30 people do this a year and i live to be 80, then 2400 people will have died from ants in my lifetime. i would have to do some deeper thinking, but i don't think i've even talked to 2400 people in my life so that number is a bit freaky. i'm pretty sure i have stepped on more than 2400 ants in my life.
if someone had asked me, "how many people do you think die from ants a year?" i would have probably said, "can you repeat that?" and they would repeat it, and i'd say, "do you mean ants or aunts?" hopefully they would reply and say "ants, not aunts" and put emphasis on the "u" in "aunts" so i knew what was what. my reply then would have been something like, "i'm not sure" because it never occurred to me until now. now i can ask others and if anyone ever asks me, i can reply with, "30 people die every year, and 2400 people will have died if i live to be 80 years old." wow.
i became a little sidetracked in my research and discovered that there are no lists online about the foods that have fun facts on the packaging. i decided to make a list of the one's i can think:
-laffy taffy (not fun facts but fun jokes)
-cracker jacks (inside the box)
that's about all i got right now.
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