20 things you didn't know about death

[Kyonye]

http://www.discover.com/issues/sep-0...20thingsdeath/

I thought this was pretty neat

Just one of them:

It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.

[Hamma]

14 Well, yeah, there's a slight chance this could backfire: English philosopher Francis Bacon, a founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it.

[Black]

15 For organs to form during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we would all be born with webbed feet, like ducks.

cells are emo