Monthly deaths from drowning correlate to ice cream sales.
Ice cream doesn't cause drowning, but both numbers go up at the same time of year (summer)
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Wtf Colorado!
We must increase the pirate population dramatically!
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Every single person who confuses correlation with causation ends up dying.
We don't know that for sure. There several bililon people who have not died yet.
Sounds like none of them have confused the two then... yet!
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Do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to you?
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