1. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.
2. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
3. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
4. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.
5. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
6. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.
7. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.
8. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.
9. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.
10. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Animal cures and remedies Facts
It is an interesting fact that in olden times, people were so superstitious and gullible that animals were often used to cure ailments and fix problems:
* after a fall, one had to drink the blood from a cat’s tail that had been chopped off
* a bad chest was cured by drinking blood from a cat’s ear mixed with red wine
* A field full of weed could be fixed by burying a dead cat in it
* in the middle ages, quacks believed that animals spoke in Latin and that their cries had significance
* a person with scarlet fever was cured by taking hair from the patient and feeding it to an ass, which was to contract the fever and thus curing the patient
* children with measles were treated by plucking hair from the nape of their necks and feeding it to dogs
* patients with rickets would be passed over the back and under the belly of an ass (donkey) nine times without uttering the word by successive numbers
* if you had fits, every morning you will need to chew on some grass and feed it to a jay. Once the bird died, you would be cured
* In Europe, epilepsy was cured by cutting the nose off a mole and letting 9 drops of blood fall on a cube of sugar which was then eaten by the patient
* In Shropshire, a toothache was treated by simply applying the amputated foot of a poor mole
* a person bitten by a dog was to eat the hair from the same dog
* eels were placed in the ears of deaf people to cure t
* after a fall, one had to drink the blood from a cat’s tail that had been chopped off
* a bad chest was cured by drinking blood from a cat’s ear mixed with red wine
* A field full of weed could be fixed by burying a dead cat in it
* in the middle ages, quacks believed that animals spoke in Latin and that their cries had significance
* a person with scarlet fever was cured by taking hair from the patient and feeding it to an ass, which was to contract the fever and thus curing the patient
* children with measles were treated by plucking hair from the nape of their necks and feeding it to dogs
* patients with rickets would be passed over the back and under the belly of an ass (donkey) nine times without uttering the word by successive numbers
* if you had fits, every morning you will need to chew on some grass and feed it to a jay. Once the bird died, you would be cured
* In Europe, epilepsy was cured by cutting the nose off a mole and letting 9 drops of blood fall on a cube of sugar which was then eaten by the patient
* In Shropshire, a toothache was treated by simply applying the amputated foot of a poor mole
* a person bitten by a dog was to eat the hair from the same dog
* eels were placed in the ears of deaf people to cure t
Smallpox Facts
In the middle ages, it is a curious fact that smallpox was treated by letting the patient wear red clothing and sitting in a room with daylight coming through red curtains.
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