20 little-known facts about death

Numeric lists, as we all know, are the new black when it comes to the dissemination of online information. So we smugly thought we had come across the ultimate version recently with . Wrong.

We've been outdone once again in the universe of listmania, this time not because of meta-filtering but because of topical importance--which, in this case, is the very sobering subject of our mortality. In this list, Discover tackles the issue with "20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Death."