You don't have to be a statistician to know that correlation does not equal causation. However, the internet is full of news items propagating wrong inferences derived from coincidental relationships between two random facts. The website Spurious Correlations lets you look up and plot numerous of these correlations which, if misunderstood, would make great news articles--if only on platforms like The Borowitz Report or The Onion (or Nature?). After all, there are enough people out there who believe everything they read without double-checking source or facts. As a German citizen, I am especially intrigued by the fact that the number of German cars sold in the US and fatalities after falling out of a chair are at least moderately correlated (r = .536).