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Could Piranhas Really Turn You Into a Skeleton in a Matter of Minutes?

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.yout→’t without precedent, but most certainly doesn’t tell the whole story about whether piranhas are actually dangerous to humans. (And, incidentally, if you live in the U.S., you are nearly four times as likely to be killed by a vending machine as a shark, with an average annual death rate of 2.18 for vending machines and 0.6 deaths from shark attacks.) Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/07/school-piranhas-really-turn-spooky-skeleton-matter-minutes/ Sources: https://www.amazon.com/Through-Brazilian-Wilderness-Theodore-Roosevelt/dp/143829073X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1468879827&sr=8-1&keywords=Through+the+Brazilian+Wilderness&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=0763466b1b0048e591de28b83817736c http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/science/redbellied-piranha-is-really-yellow.html https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Brazilian_Wilderness http://mentalfloss.com/article/50356/how-teddy-roosevelt-turned-piranhas-ferocious-maneaters http://io9.gizmodo.com/5871875/meet-the-ball-cutter-fish-the-piranha-cousin-nicknamed-for-exactly-what-you-think http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/62440/girl-eaten-by-piranhas-how-common-are-piranha-attacks http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130813-pacu-piranha-testicle-biting-fish-invasive-species/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqUOD9Nr8tw http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00002027 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-piranhas-180951948/?no-ist http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/fishqa/f/faq0102.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-bellied_piranha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B9_(Pacu).jpeg

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  • Originally Aired December 14, 2016
  • Runtime 13 minutes
  • Production Code go2op7E73C4
  • Created September 18, 2020 by
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