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“The Birthday Effect” is a statistical phenomenon in which people are more likely to die on or near their birthday. One theory for the increase is that people are more likely to engage in high-risk activities while celebrating (e.g., excessive drinking).
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Rest in Peace? Not for These 7 Unlucky Individuals
Death is usually the end. For these seven people, things only got weirder after they died. list, death, corpse, Formosus, False Dmitry I, Gram Parsons, Catherine of Valois, F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Evita PerónAt least in death one can hope to escape life’s torments and insults. For some,
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