21 Daily Risks We All Take (without Even Knowing It) – How Many Do You Partake In?

It’s easy to overlook the threats hidden in our daily routines. From burning the midnight oil to oversharing online, many seemingly harmless habits harbor silent dangers. Sometimes, what appears benign can be our biggest adversary.

Stress

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“I am now going to stress about being stressed”

“Agreed! I’ve developed a blindness due to stress! No lie. Didn’t think it was possible. Central Serous Retinopathy (CSR)”

Revealing Personal Information About Yourself on The Internet

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“Exactly why I have a whole fake identity on the Internet”

House Hold Every Day Cleaning Chemicals

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“Especially if you mix them to make a “better, stronger” cleaner.”

“My mom always told me never to mix Windex and bleach@

Infections

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“Every person reacts differently to them. Don’t assume you are the average”

“Sepsis is no joke”

Compressed Air

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“A friend and I had the bright idea to use his compressor to spin a fidget spinner. It sounded like a jet right before it EXPLODED in my hand. Bruised my hand and it hurt for a few days. I’d like to say we were kids but we weren’t lmao.”

Trampolines

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“Especially with multiple people.”

“Bruised my ribs from jumping on a trampoline as a kid and getting launched off of it by a weight imbalance from 2 friends who were also jumping on it with me. That literally knocked the air out of me when I hit the ground and I thought I was gonna die because I couldn’t breathe.”

Long Hair Around Pulleys and Belts

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“There’s a YouTube channel where two young ladies are working around a sawmill with long hair, and I can’t count how many times people have begged them in the comments to tuck their hair up. They don’t.”

Water on The Road

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“You might be able to drive through it, but more often than not, you shouldn’t try to”

Wild Animals

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“I was in Thailand when a 30 year old got bitten by a monkey. Her complaint? No one had warned her not to pet the monkeys. Honest to God.”

Having Your Snapchat Location On

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“Yea i thought about it in highschool and was wondering mostly why girls had it on. I knew girls that added random ppl for streaks. Dumb thing to do.”

Sea Kayaking

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“Simple, but you’re in serious trouble if you flip around and can’t get back in.”

Riding a Horse

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“It’s comparable with serious extreme sports, and head injuries are the most common.”

Drink Driving

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“Going to a bar, drinking, and driving home. It’s so goddamn casual.”

Motorcycles

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“really anything without a cage around it. Even if you wear a helmet, the brunt of the impact force goes on your spinal column.”

SunBurn

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“Sun burns would be treated much differently if they were called by their true name, radiation burns.”

Loneliness

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“The NHS (British health care system) did a study like this: develop a statistical definition of loneliness – a threshold of social connections, below which, yeah, the subject is pretty surely lonely. Examine the difference in death rate between people in the same demographic categories, who are lonely (as defined) or not lonely. Being lonely turns out to have about the same risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.”

Blunt Kitchen Knives

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“One might think, oh this is just a flat piece of steel but cutting becomes tearing and crushing. The extra force this takes can easily send the knife off in an unintended direction in a swift and uncontrollable manner. Then you find out what a flat piece of steel can do to your fingers.”

Driving

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“it’s my biggest pet peeve when people don’t take driving seriously”

“I particularly hate the ones who have “Main character syndrome” and treat the highway as an obstacle course, weaving through traffic to get 20 feet ahead”

Child Birth

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“There’s a reason before modern medicine life expectancy for a lot of women was living to the ripe ol’ age of died in childbirth”

“My wife kept relapsing into intensive care after giving birth to our son for 3 months. That really hit home how dangerous it was. There were several times I thought we were going to see her for the last time. I’m thankful every day she pulled through.”

Over the Counter Painkillers

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“They are easily abused and can cause liver and/or kidney damage.”

Over Working

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“40+ hour work weeks. I shouldn’t see my coworkers more than my family and friends.”

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