Have you ever gone to the track and bet on a horse? Have you ever tracked the odds on your horse? It always amazed me that someone actually sat in an office somewhere and computed those odds. No one actually knows what criteria is used or even if they’re accurate but what the hell do I know, I’m not a gambler. Today’s post is going to be more of the same. I found this information quite by accident and I knew immediately that I had to post it. If you think horseracing odds were hard to compute, these are even more ridiculous. You might find them interesting, and I hope you do.
Odds of Dying
While playing a video game: 100,000,000 to 1
By venomous snake bite: 95,000,000 to 1
By an asteroid falling to earth: 75,000,000 to 1
By venomous spider bites: 25,000,00 to 1
By a champagne cork: 22 million to 1
By lightning: 10,000,000 to 1
By a bee or wasp sting: 5,000,000 to 1
By falling down stairs: 157,000 to 1
By choking: 100,000 to 1
By heart disease: 467 to 1


