"Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why."

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Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

— Mary Roach