On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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We are born with 350 bones, and die with 206.
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In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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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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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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