What Really Happens To Your Body When You Are Decapitated
Whether severed from your body as the result of an execution or a tragic accident, your body goes through rapid changes when your head has been removed.
Read MoreWhether severed from your body as the result of an execution or a tragic accident, your body goes through rapid changes when your head has been removed.
Read MoreAccording to Savor Japan, poison blowfish (also known as fugu), is a delicacy that has been eaten in Japan for hundreds of years — despite its very real danger.
Read MoreMicrowaves heat and cook foods in a quick and timely manner. If a microwave can heat and cook the flesh of animals, surely it can cook that of a human, right?
Read MoreProblems with lethal injection range from prolonged death, to needles shooting out of a condemned man's veins, to violent reactions to the drugs utilized.
Read MoreThe chances of an average American dying in a plane crash are 1 in 11 million. In comparison, it's much more common to die in a car crash, or by drowning.
Read MoreSince recorded history, the powers that be have exacted death sentences to be carried out in ways ranging from stoning to burning to beheading.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, the electric chair was first invented as a more humane way to kill than hanging, and so far, more than 4,300 people have died in it.
Read MoreHere's what happens if you drink gasoline. But seriously, don't do it.
Read MoreAs you might suspect, the human anatomy has very little in common with the u-bend of a bathroom sink. Here's why you should not drink Drano.
Read MoreHistoric photos of the Kashmir giants were taken in India during the Durbar festival in Delhi in 1903. Here's how tall the giants of Kashmir really were.
Read MoreWhile it's very, very unlikely that humans will ever be able to set foot on Venus, here's what may happen to the human body if you land on the planet.
Read MoreSwallowing too much of your own blood can bother the stomach -- it might induce vomiting. Instead of making the situation better, this can worsen the bleeding.
Read MoreWhen life leaves the human body, there are so many possible things that happen to the corpse, and one is the likelihood of being eaten.
Read MoreCells slowly decline in their function. But while the decomposition of cells continues even in death for many bodies, some are resilient to decay.
Read MoreThe average person cuts the proverbial cheese between five and 15 times each and every day. That's a whole lot of gas, friend. What happens if you hold it in?
Read MoreHumans need to consume water, and salt, to survive. But what happens to your body when you drink salt water?
Read MoreMedieval armor was basically a technological, military device that evolved according to advances in metallurgy and demands of warfare.
Read MoreElisa Lam's body was found in a water tank at the Cecil Hotel, and an autopsy laid out the details of what 19 days in water will do to a body.
Read MoreThese bizarre things really can happen to your body after you die. You might not get to see it, but just so you know.
Read MoreWe're aware of the thrills hitting us from all sides while riding a roller coaster, but there's a bunch of weird stuff happening on our insides as well.
Read MoreWe all have had an occasion to lie -- sometimes about cherry trees, like George Washington, and other times, just to be polite. There is a difference between social niceties and pathological lying, though. But where is the line, and what happens when we cross it?
Read MoreAlthough they lack the pizzazz of lightsabers, polygraphs — better known as lie detectors — work on the equally fantastical premise that a machine can definitively say whether the subject of the test is lying or not ... and the Supreme Court ruled against them in 1998.
Read MoreBaseball caps -- also tractor caps, or trucker caps -- are everywhere, especially on people's heads. Usually they come off within a reasonable timeframe, but what happens if you wear a hat every day?
Read MoreIsn't a coma basically just being asleep? How bad can a coma really be? Well, a coma is a horrific condition in so many ways that you've probably never imagined. That being said, a coma is far from a simple state of being. Here's what happens to your body when you're in a coma.
Read MoreSo you, like the terrifying Nosferatu, the quietly noble chupacabra, and Nicolas Cage before you, have heard the seductive call of the night and decided to give in to your insatiable lust for blood. What's going to happen to your body?
Read MoreHave you ever bought a tub of low-fat ice cream only to eat eight times more than you would of the fattier version? Vaping is basically high-tech low-fat ice cream for smokers.
Read MoreMight as well start with the basics: don't drink vape juice. Nothing that you're about to read will change the fact that drinking vape juice will cement your place as the weird (and unhealthy) dude who drinks vape juice. That sort of social branding doesn't go away.
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