there was actually a pigment of paints made from ground up mummies. it is creatively called "mummy".
there was actually a pigment of paints made from ground up mummies. it is creatively called "mummy".
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Red velvet cupcakes are colored with ground-up bugs.
I found out recently that WD-40 is fish oil.
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green paint may have been responsible for napoleon's death. some green paints contained arsenic and were toxic with prolonged exposure.
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Irises are herbs and are used to create the blue color in some liquors and spirits.
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In ancient Andean cultures families would mummify their dead. When the Inca conquered new territory, they would take all the mummies back to their capitol. So if you wanted to pay your respects to grandma and grandpa, you would be confronted with the reality of your political subjugation.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
If you take all the veins and arteries in a man's body and lay them end to end, that man will die.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
New Jersey once had a large caviar industry, is one of the top ten wine producing states, has a native cactus species and was a haven for pirates
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Lake Baikal(Siberia) holds 20 percent of all the fresh water on Earth.
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Nine out of ten dentists agree that the tenth is wrong.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
The name "Hell" for the underworld is believed to be derived from Hel in Norse mythology.
In the name of the town, Hell, it might be short for "hellir", which is a word for "cave".
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Decomposition contributed to vampire scares, as little was known of decomposition in those days. Internal gases and expulsions of bodily fluids gave the impression of the body having just fed and dehydration pulls skin away from teeth, nails and hair, giving the impression that these things have grown. It is also believed, according to the book Supernatural Serial Killers, that werewolves and vampires were created in an effort to explain heinous acts and depravity committed by serial killers.
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Other things that may have contributed to undead scares and legends:
lead poisoning from pewter where the person was not killed but was in a temporary coma state, but was thought to have died
catalepsy or other similar medical condition
botched executions and burials of criminals
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