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If you were to stand very close to a rocket at launch you would not be killed by the heat of the exhaust, but by the sound of the engines

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Marcia Powell - A woman locked in an outdoor metal box by Phoenix prison guards. Through two shift changes she pleaded for water and other prisoners pleaded for her before she died of heat exhaustion. No one charges were brought.

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1. Black holes in space were named after the Black Hole of Calcutta, an infamous dungeon in India where prisoners died of suffocation and heat exhaustion.

2. Persistence hunting is a hunting technique in which hunters use a combination of running, walking,[1] and tracking to pursue prey to the point of exhaustion. While humans can sweat to reduce body heat, their quadrupedal prey would need to slow from a gallop in order to pant.

3. Half of the K9 deaths of 2017 were from heat exhaustion because their handler forgot them in the patrol car. Many of the public reports vaguely excuse the incidents as "a mechanical malfunction".

4. If the air temperature is near or above body temperature (98.6F), electric fans may actually increase the risk of heat exhaustion, and the EPA discourages their use for anything other than bringing in cooler air

5. More k-9 police dogs have died from heat exhaustion this year than any other way in the line of duty.

6. The Dancing Plague of 1518. Hundreds of people danced on end for days and some died of heat stroke, exhaustion, or heart attack. Theories surrounding the cause of this deathly party range from ergot fungi to an abnormal involuntary movement disorder called chorea.

7. There was a Formula 1 Grand Prix in the parking lot of Caesars Palace, but the drivers hated it and after the first race the winner almost passed out due to heat exhaustion.

8. Actor Martin Lawrence almost died in 1999 from heat exhaustion due to jogging in his costume for "Big Momma's House"