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• [Death fact 1] Under the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed in the killing fields for being academics or even for merely wearing eyeglasses (as it suggested literacy).

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• [Death fact 2] During the Hoover dam construction, the first worker to die was J. G. Tierney and the last person to die was Patrick William Tierney, J.G. Tierney’s only son who died 14 years later exactly on the same date (December 20) after his death.

  Death, Peoplesource

• [Death fact 3] France has granted the US permanent, rent-free possession of the American cemetery in Normandy, which contains the remains of 9,387 fallen troops plus a memorial of 1,557 killed there whose remains were either not found or not identified.

  Death, Peoplesource

• [Death fact 4] Emperor Hirohito (Showa), the Emperor of World War 2 Japan, was the only “axis power” leader to not have died during the war. He only just died in 1989.

  Death, Monarchsource

• [Death fact 5] 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, Relationshipsource

• [Death fact 6] Between 1 to 9 minutes after death, a person’s pupils begin to dilate and cloud over. The cloudy look is from the potassium in the red blood cells breaking down. Because most people die with their eyes open, the process usually occurs fairly quickly, though it can take up to 3 hours in some cases.

  Death, Law

• [Death fact 7] Hours before his death American writer Edgar Allan Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore. He was incoherent, wearing another man's clothes, and unable to explain how he got there. The cause of his death is an unsolved mystery.

  Death, Mysterysource

• [Death fact 8] Fredric Baur, the founder of Pringles is buried inside of a Pringles can.

  Corporation, Death, Peoplesource

• [Death fact 9] 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese during the Rape of Nanking, which is 80,000 more deaths than the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  Death, People, Placessource

• [Death fact 10] A 13-year study analyzing 17,000 traffic deaths in 12 cities found that cities that had protected bike lanes with physical barriers between bikes and motorized traffic had 44% fewer overall traffic deaths than the average city without them. Painted line bike lanes had no improvement on safety.

  Death, Transportsource

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