Fan death

Article: Sleeping with a fan on will kill you?

Source: Asia Econ via Nate

Article debunks the myth that sleeping with a fan on will kill you from hypothermia and other myths.

1. [+798, -34] The reason you die from leaving the fan on in your sleep is because your mother will beat you to death after seeing the electric bill.

2. [+470, -14] I can't sleep because it's so hot. I'm going to die from the heat, not because of leaving the fan on.

3. [+432, -11] Leaving the fan on will attract less mosquitoes too. Mosquitoes are lightweight so it's hard for them to get to humans when the wind is blowing around them.

4. [+28, -3] I sleep with the fan on every night and I'm not dead~

5. [+14, -0] You'll die from the heat if you don't sleep with the fan on...

6. [+14, -2] I feel like this myth came about because there were two cases in the news about 25 years ago where people died in their sleep and happened to have the fan on.

7. [+13, -1] I've been alive for years now ^^V

8. [+11, -4] The hypothermia stuff is exaggerated but there was in the news once where an old man died while sleeping with the fan aimed at his face and he had trouble breathing.

9. [+7, -0] In the 70s~80s, there were often cases where people died in the summer without any known cause and the police/media always blamed it on the fan, which ignited fear about it

10. [+7, -0] Even foreigners know about the strange story of Koreans and fan death ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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