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A person with normal clotting ability would have to lose nearly 40% of his blood immediately to die of blood loss. The arteries with this bloodletting potential are buried under too much flesh to be nicked by even the heaviest manila cardstock.
A stationery slice could turn deadly, however, for the 12,600 people in the U.S. with severe hemophilia and the 200 Americans with a disorder called Glanzmann's thrombasthenia.
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