When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed that his small intestine contained five gold Krugerrands. (not verified)

A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.

Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote 'Nutrition for Health', died of malnutrition. (not verified)

The tiny poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2200 people!

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.

Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation.

In Erwin, Tennessee an elephant was once hanged for murder.

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

In the Spanish Pyrenees, when a beekeeper dies, each of his bees is splashed with a drop of Black Ink.

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.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in the United States due to workplace violence.

In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.

Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918.

Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.

The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.

Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.

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.