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tyresiasThe common myth is false, hair and nails dos not keep growing after one dies. But it can look like it because the body begins to dry out between 12 and 18 hours after death causing many parts of the body to shrink.
If someone has all 5 senses, at the time of their death, hearing is the last to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.
One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.
Every day, roughly (obviously these numbers change as the world’s population grows) 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
You know those statues of people atop of horses in parks? If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
A chicken can live (and yes run!) for up to 4 days after her head has been cut off, before dying of starvation.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
There are at least 2 reasons that I am barred for life from donating blood. I cannot give the gift of life. I lived in Franceduring its Mad Cow’s outbreak. I lived in Italy during its Mad Cow’s outbreak (and ate at *the* restaurant where they found tainted beef *the* day they found it!) Yes, I am barred for life even though there are no known records of anyone developing symptoms more than a decade after eating the tainted meat. While it has been more than 10 years sinceFrance’s outbreak, it has only been 7 since Italy’s. But even if I don’t start running around in a progressively tighter circle until I drop down brain dead in the next 3 years, I am barred from donating for life. Yes, this includes preventing me from donating to my sister who is as barred as me and consenting to the donation. (This becomes important given my sister’s chronic health condition and her refusal to accept donation from non-family members. But none of us can donate!)
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
In the 1-2 second(s) leading up to a car accident I was believed would turn out much worse than it did, images from various moments in my life did flash before my eyes.
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.” (to hang = colgar, te = you)
The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
The average life of a cell phone is 18 months.
1 in every 100 American adults is now in jail or prison (91% are male and 9% female, trans people are unicorns). In the US, a convicted felon can never vote again. Paul Bernado will be able to vote in his Kingston’s cell until he dies. (No, he will never be released even though a life sentence in Canada is only suppose to last up toe 25 years.)
And finally, I started off on a site about random fact on death, clicked on a few links and the following came up. Presumably because this is a scary thought that make a few bigots want to kill themselves:
MORE people in china speak english then people in the US!
(My thoughts? No shit… What with a population of over a Billion people and English being the Global language of business, eh.)
If someone has all 5 senses, at the time of their death, hearing is the last to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.
One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.
Every day, roughly (obviously these numbers change as the world’s population grows) 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
You know those statues of people atop of horses in parks? If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
A chicken can live (and yes run!) for up to 4 days after her head has been cut off, before dying of starvation.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
There are at least 2 reasons that I am barred for life from donating blood. I cannot give the gift of life. I lived in Franceduring its Mad Cow’s outbreak. I lived in Italy during its Mad Cow’s outbreak (and ate at *the* restaurant where they found tainted beef *the* day they found it!) Yes, I am barred for life even though there are no known records of anyone developing symptoms more than a decade after eating the tainted meat. While it has been more than 10 years sinceFrance’s outbreak, it has only been 7 since Italy’s. But even if I don’t start running around in a progressively tighter circle until I drop down brain dead in the next 3 years, I am barred from donating for life. Yes, this includes preventing me from donating to my sister who is as barred as me and consenting to the donation. (This becomes important given my sister’s chronic health condition and her refusal to accept donation from non-family members. But none of us can donate!)
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
In the 1-2 second(s) leading up to a car accident I was believed would turn out much worse than it did, images from various moments in my life did flash before my eyes.
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.” (to hang = colgar, te = you)
The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
The average life of a cell phone is 18 months.
1 in every 100 American adults is now in jail or prison (91% are male and 9% female, trans people are unicorns). In the US, a convicted felon can never vote again. Paul Bernado will be able to vote in his Kingston’s cell until he dies. (No, he will never be released even though a life sentence in Canada is only suppose to last up toe 25 years.)
And finally, I started off on a site about random fact on death, clicked on a few links and the following came up. Presumably because this is a scary thought that make a few bigots want to kill themselves:
MORE people in china speak english then people in the US!
(My thoughts? No shit… What with a population of over a Billion people and English being the Global language of business, eh.)
