On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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On average, women have always lived longer than men.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
57
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
7
The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
49
In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
23
One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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