Ten: Did You Know....

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1.  When chopped off, the human head can remain conscious for twenty to thirty seconds. There are many old reports from beheadings that the head could be seen blinking and sometimes even screaming. 

2. There are over 250,000 deaths a year due to medical error. Thats over 684 per day. 

3. Fir trees can grow in human lungs. A 28 year old patient named Artyom Sidorkin reportedly inhaled the seed of a fir tree. Doctors thought it was a tumor of some sort, and were shocked to see the little tree growing inside his lung. 

4. If the sun exploded right now, you wouldn't know for about eight minutes. The energy from the explosion would travel at the speed of light, which means it would take eight minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the sun to the earth. 

5. There are about 40 super volcanoes around the world capable of killing billions of people. And we're about....24,000 years overdue for an eruption. One super volcano in Yellowstone Nation Park had a magma chamber that could comfortably fit the entire city of Tokyo in it 

6. Thomas Hargrove, a homicide archivist, estimates that there are over 2,000+ serial killers at large right now. 

7. While filming the movie 'The Exorcists', many actors got injured, the set burned down, a Priest was brought in several times to bless the set, and the actors who played Burke and Jack MacGowran, died of Influenza 

8. If stressed enough, bunnies will eat their own young. 

9. There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest, since it is too dangerous to retrieve the bodies they are used as way points for climbers. 

10. When dolphins and whales get too old and weak to swim to the surface to breathe, they start sinking into the ocean and then suffocate. 

11. When it comes to heart disease, the very first symptom in roughly 1/3 of all cases is sudden death. Meaning you could be perfectly healthy and drop dead because you had heart disease and didn't know it. 

12. There is a greater chance of fining a dead body under your bed than in your garbage

13. If you wake up randomly at the time between three and four AM it is likely that something is watching you.

14. In July of 2012, the Earth just barely missed a hit with an "extreme solar storm" the most powerful thats been seen in more than 150 years. Scientist kept it a secret from the public for a few more weeks, meaning if something big and potentially dangerous were going to hit the earth we wouldn't know until it was too late.

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