1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go — the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.
死的时候各种感觉消失的速度：触觉>嗅觉>味觉>视觉>听觉 依次消失
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.
一个人死后15到20秒钟还能对声音有知觉
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.
每年有100个人被钢笔噎死.比起蜘蛛来,一个人更可能因为香宾酒瓶塞致死
4. Alexander’s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body.
Alexander的葬礼在今天需要6亿美元，一条从埃及到巴比伦的道路专门为运送他的尸体而修建
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.
当大发明家爱迪生在1931年去世的时候，他的好朋友亨利福特用瓶子保存了他的最后一口气
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people.
每年有超过2500的左撇子因为使用为“右撇子”制造的工具而死亡
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days.
因为摄取了食物里面的防腐剂，一具尸体自然分解将耗费更长的时间
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years.
在日本奈良，一个牧师的坟墓里面的长明灯已经持续了1130年
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and ‘buried’ in space.
Gene Roddenberry是第一个将骨灰通过火箭运到外太空的人
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first known fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.
日本工人Kenji Urada在1981年7月成为第一个已知的由机器人而致命的人
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