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The life insurance Web site, LifeInsure.com, collected a list of 19 historical errata, superstitions and just plain weird facts about death. Here's a sampling of a few, although you will need to click the link below to see the complete list:
After being decapitated, the average person remains conscious for another15 to 20 seconds.
Henry Ford preserved Thomas Edison's last dying breath. He kept it in a bottle.
It takes 2.5 minutes to fall from the top of Mt. Everest to the bottom.
Nearly 2,500 left-handed people die each year as a result of using products meant for right-handed people.
100 people each year choke to death on ballpoint pens.
A cockroach can survive for nine days without a head, before finally dying of starvation.
LifeInsure.com
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