21 Your hair and fingernails continue to grow after you die.
It's true that a person's hair and nails may appear longer after their death. But, according to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, that's only because the skin around a person nails and hair retracts over time due to dehydration of the body, not because their hair and nails are actually growing.
22 If you touch a baby bird with your bare hands, its mother will reject it.
"In general, wild animals bond with their young and do not quickly abandon them," Laura Simon of the Humane Society of the United States explained.
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