Found this interesting:
The male blanket octopus faces a significant gender imbalance – he is just two centimetres long, while the female of the species can measure up to two metres.
And as if being 100 times smaller than his mate wasn’t bad enough, he dies right after having sex with her.
| Cause of Death | Lifetime Odds |
| Cancer | 1-in-7 |
| Accidental Injury | 1-in-36 |
| Intentional Self-harm (suicide) | 1-in-121 |
| Assault by Firearm | 1-in-325 |
| Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.) | 1-in-3,357 |
| Drowning | 1-in-8,942 |
| Flood* (included also in Natural Forces above) | 1-in-30,000 |
| Tornado* (included also in Natural Forces above) | 1-in-60,000 |
| Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting* | 1-in-100,000 |
| Dog Attack | 1-in-147,717 |
| Tsunami* | 1-in-500,000 |
Play the game here.
“These suicide notes were gathered at the coroners’ offices by a suicidologist/psychiatrist who asked to be anonymous. He edited identifying details out of the compiled manuscript, and we changed the names. But the text of each letter plus the age and sex given are real. All these people did kill themselves. Were they ambivalent about it? About half the hundred or so letters we saw seemed to have some element of doubt.”
Read the notes here.