"Curious & Unusual Deaths" on Discovery Fit & Health I had thought that the Spike series "1,000 Ways to Die," a compendium of gruesome actual deaths, pretty much had the subject covered. Discovery Fit & Health Curious & Unusual Deaths Re-enacting an ill-fated experiment on Discovery Fit & Health, Friday at 10, Eastern and Pacific times; 9, Central. I mean, when you put your mind to it - which I do a lot lately because I watch quite a bit of what I call Paranoia Television - how many ways to expire can you come up with? Hit by a bus, flattened by a meteor, crushed by the neighbor's pet python, maybe a dozen others. Surely there can't be more than 1,000 ways to die. Writing those words now, I can't believe that a mere 30 minutes ago I was so naïve. That was before I watched "Curious & Unusual Deaths," a series that has its premiere Friday on Discovery Fit & Health. What exactly is fit and healthy about dying isn't clear to me, but what is clear is that I'll be lucky to finish writing this review before I am struck down in some bizarre, unpredictable way. "Why did the Bible salesman drop dead?" the show asks in its opening moments. Why indeed? The series looks at this and other real-life deaths that might seem inexplicable and then explains them. The salesman was struck down in midpitch on a cloudless Florida day. By the end of the segment we know that the phrase "bolt from the blue" isn't just an expression, and that a Bible is apparently no protection against random death. The premiere also explores the departures of a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and a not-very-bright lawyer who worked on the 24th floor of a glass tower in Toronto. As if that weren't enough for the easily unsettled, the show sprinkles each episode with factoids related to the deaths examined, just rolling them out there without explanation. "Eighty-four percent of people struck by lightning are male," we're told in the premiere. Then, later, "kitty litter and bananas contain enough radiation to set off many airport detectors." Well, that settles it. This is the last time I clean out the cat box during a thunderstorm while eating a banana. Thanks to this series, I know that death could come when I least expect it, even in midsenten - - Curious & Unusual Deaths Discovery Fit & Health, Friday nights at 10, Eastern and Pacific times; 9, Central time. Produced by Lamport-Sheppard Entertainment Ltd. Created by Andrew Kaufman and Marlo Miazga; written by Mr. Kaufman; directed by David Weaver and John Paizs; Michael Lamport and Gregory Sheppard, executive producers; Ms. Miazga, series producer; Tiffany Martindale, co-producer.