Survival Facts That Might Prove Useless To You
More than 50 percent of the people who are bitten by a poisonous snakes in the United States and who go untreated still survive.
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming a mean temperature of 60° F.
According to Time magazine (August 6, 1951), the following rule of thumb can be used to determine whether victims of radiation poisoning will live or die:
1.All those who do not vomit after contamination will live.
2.Those who vomit for an extended period of time will probably die.
3.Half of those who stop vomiting within a few hours will probably live.