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Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by EMMYB0Y(m): 5:33pm On Jan 22, 2016
Death is both saddening and fascinating. We all wonder what happens after we die, but do we ever really learn as much as we can from the information we do have? It's like they say, your body is a temple, except this temple does some seriously strange things. Using your own digestive juices to eat yourself? No problem! Getting an erection when you're hanged to death? It happens!


1. A human head remains conscious for around 20 seconds after being decapitated.
2. A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land.
3. Within three days of death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.
4. About 153,000 people worldwide die everyday.

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Re: Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by EMMYB0Y(m): 5:38pm On Jan 22, 2016
5. When a person dies, their sense of hearing is the last to go.
6. You can't die of 'old age', only from diseases brought on by age.
7. Men who are hanged get a death erection, known as rigor erectus.
8. In some cases, bodies develop a corpse wax that can preserve the remains for years.

Re: Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by EMMYB0Y(m): 5:42pm On Jan 22, 2016
9. Forensic scientists can tell how long it has been since death by looking at the species of insect on the body.
10. The skin around the finger and toenails dries and contracts after death, making it look as though they have grown.
11. Dead bodies swell up like balloons after about four days, due to the release of gases and liquids.
12. The Zoroastrian Parsi community in India offers its dead to vultures rather than burying/burning them.

Re: Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by EMMYB0Y(m): 5:44pm On Jan 22, 2016
13. The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever.
14. More than 7000 people die annually due to the doctor's bad handwriting.
15. Left handed people die 3 years earlier than right handed people.

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Re: Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by northvietnam(m): 5:49pm On Jan 22, 2016
Op are you an Agent of death?..
Re: Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by osesology(m): 6:37pm On Jan 22, 2016
Scary indeed
Re: Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by niggi4life(m): 7:20pm On Jan 22, 2016
thank God am a right handed fellow...

Obinna, u this lefty, dat mean say u go kpeme before me grin
Re: Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by Nobody: 8:24pm On Jan 22, 2016
to die just de hungry me grin
Re: Strange & Scary Facts About Death You Probably Didn’t Know by iamaket(m): 9:04pm On Jan 22, 2016
Alright

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