Obviously not as prominent now, but the belief that seemingly everyone had a couple years ago that the Maya had believed the world would end in 2012. There was no evidence that they believed this, only that their long-count calendar ended in that year. It would be like saying Americans think the world will end in December, because our calendar ends in that month.

American revolution was about British being greedy over taxes. The truth is that a number of businesses wanted to expand into Indian territory and asked the British for soldiers. The government refused, telling them that if they want to expand then they would need to raise the money locally. The businessmen figured that if they were raising money locally then they might as well seize control of local government as well. Thus the US was born from greedy capitalism and has the worst workers rights of any developed country. The clever bit was to convince the people that being economic slaves was a great idea.

My wife's grandfather was standing on the corn in his silo to break apart some that had gotten stuck due to moisture. Fell through and was buried in the corn. Nobody was with him so they didn't suspect anything until he didn't come in for dinner. Allegedly he had just found out he had cancer and knowing that, the family was at least grateful he went out that way instead of a prolonged illness.

FIR3W0RKS:

This is actually a horrendously common way for people to die on family owned farms nowadays, with 15-25 people in America dying every year to it.
Also, suffocation is a horrible way to go out, I would not wish that death on anyone, being buried alive.