21 Things You Won’t Believe You Can Die From

Statistically speaking, there’s a laughably small number of things that will probably kill you. Of the three million people who die in the U.S. every year, about half of them die from heart disease or cancer. Every other category is minuscule in comparison. Flip a coin: Is it gonna be butter or forgetting to wear sunscreen? It’s almost certainly going to be one or the other.

Of course, “almost” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Not to alarm you, but there’s an infinite number of bizarre things that could end your life at any time — from sneezing too hard to using the wrong straw to drinking too much water. That’s why user Mairon3791 asked r/AskReddit, “What’s an actual cause of death so extremely rare that it’s hard to believe it’s possible?”