• Chainweasel
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    1571 year ago

    In South Korea most fans have timers so they’re not left on overnight, because people think it’ll kill you if you do leave it on.
    This belief wasn’t helped by medical examiners putting “death by fan” on the death certificates of suicide victims to help the dead save face and spare the families the embarrassment of a “cowardly death” for a few decades.

    • @MicrosoftSam
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      351 year ago

      What is death by fan supposed to mean? Like how would you die from a fan?

      • @Garzak
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        1291 year ago

        Ask John Lennon.

      • Riskable
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        221 year ago

        Many people believe that death by fan sucks but really, it blows.

          • @[email protected]
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            141 year ago

            If the hydrogen and oxygen get redistributed in the wrong way, the room will fill with water and you drown.

          • @feedum_sneedson
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            1 year ago

            That’s basically what they think, yes. That it interrupts the flow of the air, as if capillary action was needed to pull air into your lungs. I’m not sure how the myth started but at one point they were selling fans with special guards or something to protect against the imaginary risk.

            Of course, I might be wrong - I read about this on the internet.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I used to work in a real sweatbox of a factory so we had huge fans running all day. It was deceptive because you’d normally be drenched in sweat but the fans prevented it. So you’d drink a gallon of water and take maybe one brown ass dehydrated piss. I could see something like that being blamed on a fan. Just heat exhaustion or dehydration

    • @MrFagtron9000
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      101 year ago

      So do they think that CPAP machines are just suicide devices?