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unusual facts about Death Toll


Enemies Among Us

It is the first film by the controversial director Dan Garcia, who produced Death Toll and Sinners & Saints.



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Ann Pancake

The sharply divided interests of urban and rural Americans and the powerful determinant of social class is manifest in Bait and "Redneck Boys" where the death toll of rural highways is both the cause of nonchalance and horror.

Avianca Flight 410

At the time, the crash of Flight 410 held the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Colombia until December 20, 1995 when American Airlines Flight 965 crashed in a mountain near Buga, Valle del Cauca, killing 159 people.

Bundu dia Kongo

According to the report, the high death toll resulted from excessive use of force, when the police armed with AK-47s opened fire on BDK members, who were armed with sharp sticks, stones and kola nuts.

Cham Albanian collaboration with the Axis

The death toll from these operations, which began on 1 January 1944 in the region of Konispol, was 500 Albanians.

Kodaikanal International School

Beginning in early 2010, boarding students were barred from leaving campus at any time allegedly due to concerns about the rising death toll from the swine flu pandemic.

Mortsel

Unfortunately the target was missed and a residential area hit instead, resulting in the deaths of 936 civilians, including 209 children, exceeding the civilian death toll of the Guernica raid which modern estimates put at 400.

Mudslide

On December 14, 1999 in Vargas, Venezuela, a mudslide known as The Vargas tragedy, which significantly altered more than 60 kilometers (37 mi) of its coastline, was triggered due to heavy rainfall and caused estimated damages of USD $1.79 to $3.5 billion, a death toll considered to be between 10,000 and 30,000, 85,000 people evacuated and led to the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Plantations of Ireland

English writers at the time put the Protestant victims at over 100,000 and William Petty, in his survey of the 1650s, estimated the death toll at around 30,000.

Seirogan

The higher echelons of the Army Medical Corps, including writer Mori Ōgai, favored the German view that beriberi, a disease that caused an even heavier death toll than typhoid, was caused by an undiscovered transmittable pathogens (in contrast, British-trained doctors in the navy correctly saw it as a nutritional disorder).

Tachikawa air disaster

The 129-person death toll remained the highest-ever aviation fatality count, commercial or military, until 1960, when 134 died in the collision of a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation over New York City.

The Great Terror

Nevertheless, some historians maintain their original, higher estimates, among them Stalin biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, Perestroika architect and former head of the Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, and the director of Yale's "Annals of Communism" series Jonathan Brent, putting the death toll at about 20 million.

Tobacco harm reduction

In October 2008 the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) became the first medical organization in the U.S. to officially endorse tobacco harm reduction as a viable strategy to reduce the death toll related to cigarette smoking.