15 Americans will get the plague this year — and other fun death facts

1/22/2013

According to Vsauce, there's nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Planet Earth wants to kill you. Whether you're at the top of Mount Everest, in the fiery bowels of a volcano, plumbing the depths of the ocean, or looking for trouble in Somalia, Juarez or Chernobyl, you're just not going to get out of life alive. In fact, according to the video, between five and 15 Americans get the plague each year, and 93 percent of all the humans who've already lived are already dead, half of them from malaria. Gin and tonic, anyone?

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