Your electric fan is trying to kill you, and other cultural superstitions

Raymond ChenMay 16, 2013May 16, 201305/16/13

In Korea, it is generally believed that leaving a fan on in an enclosed room can be fatal. Ken Jennings looks at cultural superstitions and wrote a Slate article focusing on the scourge of Korean fan death. My mother told me that handling cellophane tape makes you sterile. Though that may have just been her way of getting me to stop ...