A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty. If it’s reduced by 10%, you’ll die.
There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
Cockroaches can live for several weeks with their heads cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. They would eventually die from being unable to eat.
Birds don’t understand glass. It’s estimated that a billion birds die each year from crashes into glass.
You are more likely to die slipping in the bathtub, getting struck by lightning, or drowning in the bathtub, than from Terrorism.
Vegetables and fruits don’t die the moment they are harvested. They respond to their environment for days.
Nearly 6,000 people per year get hurt or die in the UK after tripping over their trousers or falling down stairs while pulling them up.
French grammarian Dominique Bouhours last words were: “I am about to —or I am going to— die: either expression is correct.”
25% Russians die before reaching the age of 55, compared to just 1% in the U.S., and Vodka is to blame.