I am reminded of the classic problem from high-school physics, where you are asked to describe how to measure the height of a building with a barometer.
1.The canonical answer: measure the air pressure at the base of the building, and at the top of the building, and calculate the height based on the difference in air pressure.
2.Climb to the top of the building and drop the barometer off the side of the building, measuring the time it takes to hit the ground, using the formula for distance covered under acceleration to calculate the height.
3.Lower the barometer down the side of the building on a rope, and then measure the rope.
4.Set the barometer on the ground, and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the building's shadow, and use the principle of ratios to calculate the height of the building.
5.Place the barometer on the ground and back up to a point where, looking from the ground, the barometer subtends the same visual angle as the building. Compare the distance from your visual point to the barometer and the building, and again using the principle of ratios, calculate the height of the building.
6.Climb the side of the building, marking your climb in units of the height of the barometer, then multiply the height of the building in barometers by the actual height of the barometer to get the building's height.
7.Knock on the door of the building superintendant, and when he answers, greet him and say, "Sir, if you can tell me the height of this building, I will give you this fine barometer."
I'm certain there are others, but these were the ones that my high-school physics teacher recounted when talking about the problem.
Stories like this are an example of how to sensationalize events by describing them out of context. Yes, the temperature of 100.4°F set a new record... but it beat the previous record, set in 1915, by a mere 0.4°F. Clearly, an increase in record high temperature of 0.4°F over a century is a dire consequence of global warming, and a single day's high temperature is obviously entirely anthropogenic in nature.
Take one marble out of the "BW" box. The other marble in that box must be the same color, or the label will be correct. Suppose it's white. The "BB" box therefore must have one black and one white marble, or its label would be correct, and the "WW" box must have two black marbles. The same process of elimination can be extended if the marble you draw is black.
'Deers'? Really? 'Deer' is an irregular plural, like 'sheep', 'aircraft', 'swine', 'trout', and many others, for which the singular and plural are identical.
Whoopee cushions, albeit not in their current form, are older than dirt. The Roman emperor Elagabalus, to deflate pompous dinner guests, liked to seat them on cushions that emitted a fart noise when sat on.
This man is going to have no cred whatsoever in jail. "Oh, yeah, he's the guy who got beat up by the eighty-year-old woman in the house he broke into." "Pathetic."
"Rod Stewart Reveals his Epic Model Railway City"... I guess the articles in Model Railroader magazine in December of 2007, February of 2014 and June of 2017 showing off his model railroad layout don't count.
So he's following in the footsteps of Peter Schickele, particularly pieces like his 'Unbegun Symphony' (which only has a third and a fourth movement; he was born too late to write the first two movements), and many of the pieces attributed to P.D.Q. Bach, such as 'Eine Kleine Nichtmusik'.
The 'Seyko' misspelling is almost certainly deliberate, to avoid the studio giving out free advertising. Product placement is a sizeable business in film; if you see a character in a film drinking a soft drink, and you can read 'Coca-Cola' or 'Pepsi' on the can/bottle, you can be certain that Coke or Pepsi paid to have their brand visible. When the production company needs to have a prop that would logically be a branded product, but the company that makes that product doesn't want to pay for the product placement (or the production company doesn't want to take the time to negotiate a placement), they'll create a prop that looks similar to the brand, but with enough differences to avoid trademark infringement. So 'Seiko' becomes 'Seyko'.
Yes, the raw counts make it pretty much inevitable that the countries that have more of a given mode of travel are going to be high up in the ranking for accidents from that mode of travel. I have to agree that accidents and deaths per passenger-mile (or thousand miles, or whatever returns an easily-comparable number) is going to be a much better metric.
"When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults."