Saturday is the deadliest day of the week

April 23, 2016  10:29

Of all the days of the week, Saturday is the day people are most likely to die.

That’s according to a new analysis from LiveScience, which took on the the grim task of crunching the numbers from the Centers for Disease Control for the causes of all deaths in the U.S. between 1999 and 2004 — a total of 39 million deaths. They released their results earlier this week, and Saturday topped the list in a few different categories: It had the highest number of deaths by car crash (perhaps not surprising, given that it’s a day that people often drink), drug overdoses, and “contact with a venomous plant or animal.”

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