“There’s a Mister Grim here about the Reaping …”

Twenty things you (probably) didn’t know about death.

3 No American has died of old age since 1951.

4 That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates.

I’d count that as “one thing,” but, hey, I’m not a popular science magazine editor.

18 Eighty percent of people in the United States die in a hospital.

19 If you can’t make it here . . . More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.

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

(via BoingBoing)