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Most Dangerous Mode of Transportation: Motorcycles
Although motorcycles only account for 1% of total vehicles on the road, they are responsible for more than 20% road fatalities. Therefore, you should be extremely careful while riding a two-wheeler.
Most Dangerous Event: Europe´s Colonization of the Americas
Back when Christopher Columbus arrived in America, he did something more than set up shop. The explorers and conquerors of the colonization of the Americas wiped out over 100 million indigenous people. The death toll even trumps WWI and WWII.
Most Dangerous Disease: The Black Death
Back in 1347 Europe, the black plague known as ¨Yersinia pestis,¨ was responsible for the death of over 60 percent of the entire European population by the 1350s.
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