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• [Death fact 1]  In 1987, director John Landis was acquitted on 3 counts of involuntary manslaughter after actor Vic Morrow and two children aged 6 and 7 were decapitated on the set of The Twilight Zone movie in 1982.

  Death, Movies, People source

• [Death fact 2]  In the 1900s, an American magician named William Robinson acted as a Chinese man for his show and never broke character in public, even using a translator when speaking to journalists. He died on stage after a trick went wrong and his last words were “Oh my God. Something’s happened. Lower the curtain.”

  Death, People source

• [Death fact 3]  18th-century French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, as a final experiment told his colleagues that he would try to blink as long as possible after being beheaded. Some sources say he continued to blink for 30 seconds.

  Death, People, Science source

• [Death fact 4]  A Soviet teenager named Zinaida Portnova killed over 100 Nazis by poisoning them. She is said to have shot the Nazi investigator who captured her.

  Death, People source

• [Death fact 5]  As a person dies, his or her hearing is the last sense to go.

  Death, Law

• [Death fact 6]  Special care was taken while restoring Shakespeare's grave to ensure that his bones remained untouched as the epitaph on his tombstone reads: "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, and cursed be he that moves my bones."

  Death, People source

• [Death fact 7]  The cone snail is one of the most venomous animals on earth. It releases a cloud of insulin when a fish swims by, causing it to go into hypoglycemic shock, immobilizing it so it can inject the fish with a cocktail of up to 200 toxins.

  Animals, Death source

• [Death fact 8]  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.

  Animals, Death source

• [Death fact 9]  Alexander I of Yugoslavia refused to attend public events on Tuesdays after three family members died on that day of the week. After finally being forced to appear on Tuesday, he was promptly assassinated.

  Death, Monarch source

• [Death fact 10]  By the age of 18, 3rd century Roman emperor Elagabalus had been a high priest, consul, married four times, Roman emperor for four years, and the victim of an assassination devised by his grandmother.

  Death, Monarch source

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