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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    Voltaire's Last Words
    Voltaire's Last Words
    When Voltaire was asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed, his last words were: "This is no time for making new enemies."
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    Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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    On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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    Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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    The first man to survive going over Niagara Falls later died from slipping on an orange peel.
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    If your liver stopped working, you'd die within 24 hours.
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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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