https://revolver.news/2025/11/cooking-a-turkey-kills-roughly-as-many-people-every-year-as-tornadoes-or-lightning/
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But here's the thing: deep-frying turkeys actually kills about as many people every year as tornadoes and lightning, according to the National Fire Protection Association. On average, five people die, sixty get injured, and more than fifteen million dollars in property goes up in flames because someone said, "Relax, this is easy," right before turning their backyard into Pompeii.
Every year, firefighters try to warn Americans about the dangers of deep frying their Thanksgiving dinner, and every year someone decides to thrust a 25 pound frozen bird into a vat of scalding oil..."
