[Death fact 1] The deadliest battle in history is thought to be The Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Total casualties totaled 1,971,000.
[Death fact 2] The most dangerous ant in the world is the bulldog ant, which can literally kill humans with its stings within 15 minutes.
[Death fact 3] In the 20th century, the phrase "He never married" was a euphemism used by British obituary writers to imply that the deceased man in question was homosexual.
[Death fact 4] After death, all the muscles of the body relax. This leads to dilated pupils, eyes that are slightly open, and a slack jaw (it takes muscle activity to close the eyelids and the mouth). For a funeral, a mortuary may place plastic caps under the eyelids to avoid a sunken look and to keep them closed. They will also often wire the jaw shut.
[Death fact 5] In 1996, when Valentin Grimaldo from Texas was bitten by a coral snake, he killed the snake by biting off the snake's head and using the decapitated body as a tourniquet.
[Death fact 6] When aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal was on his deathbed after sustaining a fatal injury from a crash, his last words were “Small sacrifices must be made.”
[Death fact 7] European Hedgehogs actually hunt Adders tiring them out by chasing them and biting them many times, then breaking their necks when the Adders can't run anymore.
[Death fact 8] The Ancient Greek Painter Zeuxis is said to have died laughing at the humorous way he painted the goddess Aphrodite after the old woman who commissioned it insisted on modeling for the portrait.
[Death fact 9] English pirate Blackbeard and his crew would lock themselves in the hold of the ship and light pots of sulfur to see who could last the longest without suffocating.
[Death fact 10] In 2012, a man named Jose Melena was cooked alive in a 270-degree pressure cooker oven along with 12,000 pounds of tuna. In California’s largest workplace safety violation settlement ever ($6 million), Bumble Bee Tuna agreed to pay $1.5 million to the deceased’s family, $1.5 million to state government and courts, and $3 million to purchase new automated ovens.
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