1. After being decapitated, the average person remains conscious
for an additional 15-20 seconds. Talk about a way to go.
2. Mourning your dear departed cat? You could shave your eyebrows
like the ancient Egyptians used to. Then again, maybe a trip to the
pet cemetery would be easier.
3. May want to rethink what you bury your loved ones in. An old
wives tale claims that if a woman is buried wearing the color
black, shell come back to haunt the family.
4. Speaking of preventing hauntings, yet another old wives tale led
to the institution of burial wreaths. It was believed that the
wreath would encircle the spirit of the dead person, thereby
preventing them from returning from the grave.
5. In 1931, Henry Ford decided to preserve his friend, Thomas
Edisons last dying breath. He kept it in a bottle. Hope he put a
label on that one.
6. One of the main reasons cowboys carried pistols in the 1800s
was to avoid being dragged to death by their horse. You think they
could have just gotten bigger stirrups.
7. The last words spoken by Union General John Sedgewick were,
They (the Confederate soldiers) couldnt hit an elephant from this
dis
8. So much for the curse of good ole King Tut. Despite reports that
all twenty-two people who were present at the exhumation kicked the
bucket, twenty-one were still kicking ten years later.
9. If someone plans to jump off Mount Everest to commit suicide,
youll need a lot of patience. It takes the average person 2.5
minutes to hit bottom. And we dont want to know who timed
it.
10. Heres a job I definitely wouldnt want to have. When Pyrenees
beekeepers die, someone has to go around and splash every single
one of their bees with black ink.
11. John Bowman, a tanner from Vermont believed that after his
death he would be reincarnated with his pre-deceased wife and
children. So, he ordered his house staff to have dinner on the
table every night, just in case. They finally stopped in 1950 when
the money finally dried up.
12. Think your décor is bad? Oscar Wildes last words were, "My
wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of
us has got to go" He fought the wallpaper and the wallpaper
won.
13. An old superstition stated that if the doors in the house were
locked, the soul of a dying person couldnt get out.
14. Yet another superstition warns against pointing at a funeral
procession, with the dire warning that youll die within a month.
More proof for that whole three fingers pointing back at you
thing.
15. Might want to read the labels a little more carefully. Nearly
2,500 lefties are killed every year using products meant for
righties. Who knew? Now, just back away from those right-handed
scissors.
16. A pet-parrot caused a ruckus at President Andrew Jacksons
funeral. His crime? Swearing during the ceremony. Guess he should
have given Polly just one more cracker.
17. That ballpoint pen? The one youre chewing on? Might want to
put it down. 100 people are killed every year by choking on a
ballpoint pen. Which proves the old quote about the pen being
mightier than the sword. At least some of the time.
18. Apparently, they really are virtually destructible. A cockroach
can reportedly live up to 9 days without its head. The only reason
they finally kick over? Starvation.
19. And you thought sex appeal was the first to go. Allegedly, its
actually your sight that goes first when you die. Its your hearing
thats the last to go
. What was that?
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