The More You Know
Greetings to all of you new readers! If you haven’t introduced someone to the Greenup Beacon pick up an extra copy and give it to a friend!
I hope you love facts…some may or may not be true because we all know I get these facts from the trusted internet! Now some of you may already know this information, but relax we have guest joining us!
Did you know:
-About 93% of humans have died and there is an estimated population of 7 billion people on earth?
-Cotard’s Syndrome is where a human being is alive but believes that they are dead.
-Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in the world!
-Studies have shown that approximately 8 out of every 1,000 people die each year. That’s roughly 2 people per second.
-There is said to be 55 million deaths per year. Out of those approximately 9.5 million of them are Chinese.
-Every hour at least one person dies from drunk driving. This is a sad fact that can be easily controlled.
-Mount Everest has around 200 human remains on it which are used as land marks. I typically use fast food restaurants as my land marks, but to each their own.
-Greek philosopher Chrysippus is said to have died from laughter after a donkey ate his figs and he suggested that the donkey wash it down with some wine. I guess you would have to be there to find the humor in this…
-The creator of the Pringles packaging had his ashes stored in a Pringles Can after he died. I could only assume that this was a big can.
-35 million of your cells die every minute.
-Famadihana is a tradition in Madagascar where people take their ancestors out of the crypts, wrap the bones in fresh cloth and dance around with them to live music.
-Americans have not died of old age since 1951. That’s when the country decided to do away with that option on the death certificate.
-Ring around the Rosie dates back to 1665 and its actually about the plague that took over London. Ring around the Rosie was from swelling of the lymph nodes often having a red-ring rash; pocket full of posies were flowers used to cover the smell of death; ashes, ashes we all fall down is said to be cremation of the bodies.
-Queen Victoria insisted on being buried with the bathrobe of her long-dead husband, Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.
-If you die in Amsterdam without any friends or family left to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
-When you die they say the last thing to go is your sense of hearing. I’ve always been a firm believer that our loved ones may hear us.
We are born with 270 bones but die with only 206. Thanks to the internet you can look up the x-rays of a child’s face and I assure you it’s kind of unsettling.
Now again I’m not 100% sure how accurate these facts are, but you know what they say…if it’s on the internet it must be true!
You are loved!
Until the next time Life, taxes and…
Josh
