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The philosopher Kurt Gödel starved to death whilst his wife was in hospital because he had an obsessive fear of being poisoned and would only eat food that she cooked
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All male Anglerfish will starve to death as virgins if they do not find and bite the belly of a female where they will remain permanently attached, nourished by her blood, and breathing through their own gills. Their eyes and fins atrophy away. And they must forever provide sperm on demand.
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12 Russian botanists starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the winter of 1941, rather than consuming the foodstuffs stored at the world's first seed bank where they worked, Pavlosk Experimental Station.
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Hummingbirds are constantly hours away from starving to death, only being able to store enough energy to survive overnight. Having the highest metabolic rate of animal kingdom, their heart can reach 1260 BPM and they'll breath 250 times a minute at rest.
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During the siege of Leningrad, Hitler had no intentions of actually invading the city. He did not want to capture and feed the 3 million inhabitants and ordered an unending siege, disregarding possible surrender, waiting for the city to starve to death. Close to a million civilians starved.
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Hummingbirds have such a high metabolism that they are always hours away from starving to death
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The U.S. in 1899-1902 used Concentration camps, water cure and the destruction of crops to starve the Filipino population into submission costing up to 600.000 civilian deaths.
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The photographer who took the picture of the starving African child with a vulture waiting for her death committed suicide after 3 months. His suicide note said “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain.“
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In 526 AD there was a worldwide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a FULL YEAR, resulting in widespread famine and disease. More than 80% of Scandinavia and parts of China starved to death, 30% of Europe died in epidemics.
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A common Shrew's metabolism is so high, it could starve to death in mere hours
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An Atlanta vegan couple was sentenced to life in prison for the death of their six-week-old malnourished baby boy starved to death, who was fed a limited diet of soy milk and apple juice.
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45 Million people were accidentally starved to death in China due to a pest control program that backfired in 1958. The program eliminated sparrows, which caused bug populations to explode and destroy crops.
Elephants change teeth throughout their life, when they get old this process stops, the last teeth get worn down and they starve, this is the main cause of death for mature elephants. - source
Rabbit Starvation, a rare form of malnutrition that occurs when exclusively eating extremely lean meats, like rabbit. Since rabbit meat is so lean, if someone eats only rabbit they will starve to death.
A soldier once returned from deployment to find his wife had died and his young children had starved to death. - source
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The Irish Hunger Strike in 1981, led to prisoner Bobby sands being elected Member of Parliament during the strike, it gained media interest from around the world. The strike ended after ten prisoners had starved themselves to death—including Sands, his funeral was attended by 100,000 people.
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About the 1943 Bengal genocide in India, when Churchill as part of the war effort, diverted food from starving Indians to already well-supplied British soldiers and stores and elsewhere in Europe. 3 million Indians starved to death. Churchill's response was to ask why Gandhi hadn't died yet.
Hummingbirds' metabolism rate is so high that they will starve to death in two hours if they don't feed.
In 1512, a horribly deformed baby was born in the city of Ravenna, and then was starved to death by order of the Pope
Between the 11th and 19th centuries, Buddhist monks in northern Japan practiced a kind of meditation called Sokushinbutsu, in which they would mummify themselves alive by slowly weaning themselves off food and water before eventually starving to death