Just a few interesting facts I came across tonight

Well, still under the weather…thanks for all of the suggestions of how to feel better.  I think the number one suggestion has been Hot Toddies or adding Whiskey to my Theraflu.

I slept all day - only awake long enough to take some meds - but now I’m up, it’s 10 PM and I am hoping to get back to sleep.

I was stumbling - just to do something mindless, while I caught the premier episode of Real Housewives of Orange County (love those bitches…best out of all the Housewives.  However, I think it would be interesting to see Real Housewives of Houston, but may not be enough drama for Bravo.)

If you have not played with Stumble Upon, you should check it out.  It takes your interests and “stumbles” upon web pages that you may enjoy reading. 

I can’t remember what interests I listed, but I sometimes get webpages that sometimes are a bit macabre. 

And I have to say, that this wikipedia page with a List of Unusual Deaths was quite interesting to me.   Perhaps it’s because I don’t feel good, or perhaps, well, it’s because it was kinda interesting…here are a few of my faves from the page, but click here if you want to see the whole list.

Antiquity:  458 BC: Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone. The tortoise survived.^[1]

Middle Ages:  1410: Martin I of Aragon died from a lethal combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing.

Renaissance:  1649: Sir Arthur Aston, Royalist commander of the garrison during the Siege of Drogheda, was beaten to death with his own wooden leg, which the Parliamentarian soldiers thought concealed golden coins.^[25]

Age of Reason:  1794: John Kendrick, an American sea captain and explorer, was killed in the Hawaiian Islands when a British ship mistakenly used a loaded cannon to fire a salute to Kendrick’s vessel.^[35]

2oth Century:  1911: Jack Daniel, founder of the Tennessee whiskey distillery, died of blood poisoning six years after receiving a toe injury when he kicked his safe in anger at being unable to remember its combination.^[42]

1983: Author Tennessee Williams died when he choked on an eyedrop bottle cap in his room at the Hotel Elysee in New York. He would routinely place the cap in his mouth, lean back, and place his eyedrops in each eye. Williams’ lack of gag response may have been due to the effects of drugs and alcohol abuse.^[98]

There are several more…yes, I may seem morbid…but c’mon, you know you’ll look too.  It’s human nature.

Two days til turkey time…gobble, gobble.