vending machine, n.Trivia

Japan has approximately 5 million vending machines (or 1 machine for every 23 people)

There are more vending machines in Japan than anywhere in the world

Vending machines kill about 13 people a year

Japan has 23 vending machines per person.

vending machines are dangerous --- they kill, on average, thirteen people a year.

Coca-Cola invented a vending machine in 1989 that could adjust its prices based on the temperature, allowing it to hike up the price of a Coke on a hot summer day. Customers denounced the idea, while even Pepsi accused Coke of exploitation