Five Things You Probably Didn't Know About Sharks
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — When a shark bites a swimmer or takes a chunk out of a surfboard anywhere near the California coast, it usually makes news.
But sharks are spotted only occasionally, and bites are rare. Here are five surprising facts about sharks from National Geographic:
- 93% of shark victims are males.
- In California, more people have been bitten (or killed) by sharks than struck by lightning in the last 55 years.
- Your chance of being killed by a shark are 1 in 3,700,00
- Worldwide, about five people are killed each year by sharks.
- For every human killed by a shark, humans kill about two million sharks.
