Spurious Correlations

US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation

Per capita consumption of cheese (US) correlates with Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets

Honey producing bee colonies (US) inversely correlates with Juvenile arrests for possession of marijuana (US)

Number people who drowned while in a swimming-pool correlates with Power generated by nuclear power plants (US)

Total number of Political Action Committees (US) correlates with People who died by falling out of their wheelchair

Divorce rate in Mississippi correlates with Murders by bodily force

Age of Miss America correlates with Murders by steam, hot vapours and hot objects

Per capita consumption of sour cream (US) correlates with Motorcycle riders killed in noncollision transport accident

Per capita consumption of chicken (US) correlates with Total US crude oil imports

US crude oil imports from Venezuela correlates with Per capita consumption of high fructose corn syrup (US)

Number of people who were electrocuted by power lines correlates with Marriage rate in Alabama

US crude oil imports from Norway correlates with Drivers killed in collision with railway train

Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets correlates with Total revenue generated by skiing facilities (U

Worldwide non-commercial space launches correlates with Sociology doctorates awarded (US)

Total revenue generated by arcades (US) correlates with Computer science doctorates awarded (US)

People who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat correlates with Marriage rate in Kentucky

Per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese (US) correlates with Civil engineering doctorates awarded (US)

Divorce rate in Maine correlates with Per capita consumption of margarine (US)

Number people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool correlates with Number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in