Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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We are born with 350 bones, and die with 206.
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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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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.
19
One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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