Thursday, May 3, 2007

Things you Don't know about DEATH

clipped from www.shorttext.com
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider
Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body
When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle
Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days
An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space
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1 comment:

Gorilla Bananas said...

Fascinating, although I'm not sure how the claim about the decapitated head could be verified.