— A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
- Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.
- In 1845, President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
- When Thomas Edison died in 1941; Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.
- A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
- Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously - it can kill you.
- Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
- On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.
- A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.
- Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
- When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.
- Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.
- A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
- Under the proper conditions of moisture and heat, the flesh of a buried body will turn to soap. Known as adipocere, this strange substance is a chemical much like baking soda mixed with fat and is called ”grave wax” by undertakers.
- It is impossible to commit suicide by holding one’s breath. At worst, the person who tries this will eventually lose consciousness. The lungs will then start to breathe again automatically.
- There are four more male suicides for every female suicide.

— In ancient Japan, it was thought that somewhere on the tail of a cat there was a single hair that would restore life to a dying person. Relatives would sometimes bring a cat to the dying person, letting them pluck a hair to try their luck.
- Nosophilia refers to those who get sexually aroused by the knowledge that a partner is terminally ill. They will even stake out support groups for those with terminal illness like others flock to dating services, pretending to have had a family member or friend that passed from the disease, which is why they’re there “trying to learn”.
- Napoleon killed over a thousand people with a cough. In 1799 he was deciding whether to release 1,200 Turkish prisoners of war when he coughed and said, “Ma sacré toux!” (my darned cough) which sounded to officers like “Massacrez tous!” (Kill them all!). So they did.
Necrosadism is sadistic acts on corpses for sexual arousal. Jeffrey Dahmer as well as most serial killers do this.
- Mummies were so plentiful when first discovered that they were ground up and sold as fertilizer and put into medicines.
- Mysophilia is the practice of ingesting the body fluids of corpses, particularly urine.
- A few months before he got killed in a car accident, James Dean made a driver’s safety TV ad in which he said, “Drive safely; the life you save may be mine”.
- Mark Twain, born on a year Halley’s Comet visited us, correctly predicted he would die the next time it came by.
- It is a myth that the hair and nails grow after death; the skin shrinks, giving the illusion of their growth.
- Crematoria ovens heat typically to 1,100-1,300 F and will burn up a 180 lb. man in about an hour and a half. There’s always bones and chunks left; everything is then ground up and those are the ‘ashes’ you get back.
- Henry the VIII executed some 72,000 subjects. His favorite method was boiling people to death.
- Murderers, on average, are 7.5 years younger than their victims.
- Extreme cold is more lethal to humans than extreme heat. Cold makes you sleepy, and when you fall asleep, you die.
- It would take more than 2.5 minutes to fall from the top of Mt. Everest.
- It’s said that most people who commit suicide ‘arrange’ it so the people/person they want to ‘punish’ or give a final “See I told you so” find the body.
- It’s said that most people who commit suicide ‘arrange’ it so the people/person they want to ‘punish’ or give a final “See I told you so” find the body.
- When Anne Boleyn was beheaded, so was her dog, Urian.