This IS true. DiHydrogen Monoxide is responsible for more deaths than any other compound known to man. Especially dangerous to sailors, who seem to have a higher exposure rate as a group.
What is DHMO?
Dihydrogen Monoxide, or DHMO, is a colorless and odorless chemical that kills or maims thousands each year, primarily through accidental inhalation. It has also been revealed to be a causative agent in many environmental exposure incidents, industrial contaminations, automobile accidents, and property damage. The dollar amount losses caused, and the lives impacted, by the DHMO threat are virtually innumerable.
Just wait until I tell you about the fantastic machine they use to distribute this death - it spins at 100,000 RPM!
Just a sec, the phone repairmen have finally come to ask about the EM fields. After weeks of just sitting in their truck down the street. Be right back...