Fan death is the misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics of fan death are impossible given how electric fans operate, large belief in fan death persisted until the mid-2000s in South Korea and, to a lesser extent, Japan.
Fan death is the misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics of fan death are impossible given how electric fans operate, large belief in fan death persisted until the mid-2000s in South Korea and, to a lesser extent, Japan.
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