...from the redeemer board. Thanks Mortis 
😀 FYI:
It took over a minute and 17 seconds and two tries for the first person ever to be executed by electric chair to finally die. On August 6, 1890 at Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler sustained 2000 volts for 17 seconds before the power was cut, during which time he convulsed and turned bright red but remained alive and gasping for breath. The generator was then charged a second time, and the voltage delivered for a full minute until witnesses present could smell burning flesh, hear a crackling sound and see smoke rising from his head.
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A US study that tested various surfaces for the presence of bacteria found that telephone handsets harbour approximately 25,127 bacteria while the average for an office desktop is 20,961. Toilet seats surveyed ranked low, with only 69 bacteria.
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Hierophobia is the fear of priests and/or sacred objects.
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The term 'mausoleum' was derived from the name of King Maussollos, ruler of ancient Caria for 24 years until his death in 363 BC. The mausoleum constructed in his honor is considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
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Applying maggots to open wounds can prevent the onset of infection and gangrene, and speed healing.
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A restaurant in China lists the following delicacy dishes on its menu: rat satay with vermicelli; braised rat with roast pork and garlic; deep-fried lemon rat; and lotus seed rat stew. (In the US, I think it is simply listed as 'chicken.')
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Pino Donaggio's musical score for the movie 'Carrie' was also used in the hardcore porn film 'Honey Throat.'
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During the Black Plague, Milan suffered some of the fewest casualties. This was due to the immediate "walling up" of any victim's residence, including all of its occupants, regardless of whether anyone else was showing symptoms of the disease.
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A form of torture once practiced in Europe involved tying the victim to a bench and covering the soles of the feet with salt water. A goat was then released into the room and would proceed to lick the bottom of the feet with its rough tongue until the skin was shredded clear away.
😀 FYI: It takes an hour and a half for a 180lb man to be burned to ash in a crematoria oven. These incinerators reach heats of 1,100 to 1,300 degrees F.
😀 FYI: A human body will typically decay four times faster in water than it will on land.
😀 FYI: 'Mysophilia' is defined as an abnormal attraction to filth, including "sexual arousal from soiled clothing or foul decaying odors."
😀 FYI: Medieval Christians believed that cats were evil creatures associated with witchcraft, so they burned and slaughtered tens of thousands of the furry felines. As a result, the rat and flea populations - carriers of the Black Plague - surged and caused the disease to spread even more virulently.
😀 FYI: If all the human body's natural defenses ceased at once, the bacteria in the gut would eat the body from the inside out in 48 hours.
😀 FYI: Every day, humans shed approximately ten billion scales of dead skin. Calculated over a lifetime, this discarded dermis could weigh up to 40 lbs., and fill 18 sugar bags.
😀 FYI: Researchers have discovered that when an insect dies in an outdoor bug zapper, it explodes, sending bug bits flying outwards up to six feet.
😀 FYI: Headphones, when worn for an hour, will increase the bacteria in one's ear by 700 percent.
😀 FYI: In 14th Century Crimea, the Tartar army learned the use of the bubonic plague as a battleground weapon, disease-ridden corpses were catapulted over the walls of cities held under siege.
😀 FYI: When King Pedro of Portugal was crowned in 1355, he exhumed the corpse of his mistress so that his subjects could properly honour her as their queen. Citizens were expected to bow before her body and kiss her dead hand.
😀 FYI: Bezoars, bunches of hair, vegetable fibers and food that form indigestible masses in the stomachs of both humans and animals were once believed to be magical and to function as an antidote to poisoning.
😀 FYI: In 19th Century England, the collecting of shrunken heads became such a fad that counterfeiters in the Amazon would dig up the bodies of the poor and shrink their heads locally, sweatshop style. The modified melons sold for roughly $25 per noggin'.
😀 FYI: Khoona, a beverage believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac, is consumed by Afghani tribesmen on their wedding night. The drink is, in fact, comprised of a small amount of fresh, still-warm bull semen.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, yummy
{DOU} -=BiSoN=- wrote: 😀 FYI: Khoona, a beverage believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac, is consumed by Afghani tribesmen on their wedding night. The drink is, in fact, comprised of a small amount of fresh, still-warm bull semen.
Wonder who has to be the one to collect the semen?
Stole some more...
8) FYI: The word "lycanthrope" has its origins in Greek mythology. In the legend, King Lycaon of Acadia makes an offering to Zeus in the form of a meal of human flesh. Zeus is displeased by this and turns Lycaon into a wolf.
8) FYI: A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
8) FYI: There are several tribes in Africa who believe that crocodiles are vehicles of revenge, housing the souls of those who have been murdered.
8) FYI: Most dust particles found in the average home consist of dead skin.
8) FYI: Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Black Cat is thought to be the most-filmed short tale in history.
8) FYI: Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.
8) FYI: Only 5 to 15 deaths result from the 70 to 100 shark attacks that occur each year, while annually bee stings account for over 6,000 fatalities.
8) FYI: George Leese, leader of the 19th Century New York street gang The Slaughter Housers, was a professional bloodsucker...he would suck the blood from fighter's wounds at boxing matches.
8) FYI: In 1800s Upper Canada, there were 120 different crimes that were punishable by death.
8) FYI: Blackbeard the pirate survived being shot in the chest five times. Eventually, he was beheaded.
8) FYI: The first recorded motor vehicle fatality occurred in 1896, when the first car in England ran over a woman and crushed her head.
8) FYI: The last two remaining samples of the smallpox virus are being kept frozen in Atlanta, GA and Moscow.
8) FYI: On the island of Sardinia, an illegal but oft-consumed delicacy is casu marzu, made from pocorino cheese that has been left out in the sun to attract flies that lay their larvae in it. The treat is eaten after the maggots have hatched and digested the cheese, leaving behind an enzyme that triggers the much-desired fermentation process.
8) FYI: Stagecoach robber Black Jack Ketchum's last words before his execution by hanging were: "Let 'er rip!" When the trap fell, the weight of his body ripped off his head.
8) FYI: The candiru, a form of parasitic catfish that gets its sustenance from the blood of other fish and mammals, is capable of swimming up the urethra of a human male, where it can burrow in and permanently lodge itself using claw-like protrusions before settling in for the feast.
FYI:
A restaurant in China lists the following delicacy dishes on its menu: rat satay with vermicelli; braised rat with roast pork and garlic; deep-fried lemon rat; and lotus seed rat stew. (In the US, I think it is simply listed as 'chicken.')
Maybe he better change his name. 😆
Charger wrote: FYI:
A restaurant in China lists the following delicacy dishes on its menu: rat satay with vermicelli; braised rat with roast pork and garlic; deep-fried lemon rat; and lotus seed rat stew. (In the US, I think it is simply listed as 'chicken.')
Maybe he better change his name. 😆
:rollinglaugh:
Thanks again to Mortis...
FYI: A 21-year-old man recently reunited with his amputated foot after police siezed it from his front porch, thinking it was part of a crime scene. Ezekiel Rubottom had been keeping it on display there in a 5 gallon bucket of formaldehyde.
FYI: Hong Kong officials are considering turning a favorite local suicide spot into a theme park. The ghost-town-esque attraction would see tourists staying a night in a "haunted flat."
FYI: Diff'rent Strokes star Dana Plato was originally offered the role of Regan in The Exorcist, but her mother wouldn't allow her to appear in the film. She did have a small part in the sequel.
FYI: Some Shakespearian scholars argue that Macbeth was written as a much shorter play, and that the scenes involving the witches were added at a later date (possibly by someone else).
FYI: The literal translation of the word "seance" is "sitting."
FYI: On January 15, 1919 in Boston, a storage tank ruptured dousing the immediate area with a 30-foot tall wave of molasses that killed 21 people. (I guess it doesn't run as slowly as you think)
FYI: Before the advent of antibiotics, it was common practice to use silver in sinus and cold remedies (in the form of nose drops) and in medications for syphilis. It was later determined that use of these products could lead to a rare and irreversible condition known as Argyria, in which deposits of silver actually remain in the skin, turing the afflicted an undead-looking, slate-gray colour.
FYI: In the 1800s, it was commonplace for executioners in China to eat the heart or brain of those they carried out sentence on.
FYI: In the folklore of many cultures (including Romania, Russia, China, and parts of Africa), committing suicide was believed to cause vampirism.
FYI: Dysmorphophobia is a disorder in which a normal, healthy person becomes inflicted with the belief that they are suffering from a physical deformity.
FYI: Actor Clint Eastwood's first film role was that of a lab technician in Revenge of the Creature.
FYI: The last serious outbreak of the Bubonic Plague struck India and China in 1910.
FYI: The first computer game with a vampire theme was in 1990 with Accolade's Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
FYI: In June 2005, a 23-year-old Romanian nun named Maricica Irina Cornici was held captive, starved and eventually crucified by two other nuns and the priest overseeing the small mountain monastery where she served. Following an argument, the 29-year-old priest deemed her possessed by an evil spirit. Medical records later indicated that she suffered from schizophrenia.
FYI: After watching Frankenstein in 1931, an irate man called the manager of a Santa Barbara theatre at home every five minutes to tell him: "I can't sleep because of that picture, and you aren't going to either."
FYI: In China, crispy fried rat with lemon, boiled bamboo rat and deer's penis (served in soup) are all considered delicacies. (Note to Iron Chef: please leave these off of your menu)
FYI: Author Bram Stoker had a nightmare about vampires after eating a dinner of crabmeat, an experience which inspired him to write Dracula.
FYI: In 1995, at a bachelor party in Consenza, Italy, stripper Gina Lalapola was found dead inside the cake she was supposed to leap from. Apparently, she had suffocated inside the sealed wooden cake more than an hour before her body was found. (Note to Iron Chef: cut air holes)
FYI: Taphopilia is the love of the art and history of cemetaries and funerary practices.
FYI: A landing party visiting Krakatoa nine months after the massive 1883 eruption found only one creature alive: a tiny spider, spinning a web.
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