Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

The first manikins used for teaching CPR were all female, so as not to intimidate students. She was commonly referred to as Rescue Annie or Resusci Annie.

The owner of the company that produced Rescue Annie wanted her to have a face that was completely non-threatening, even serene. He found it at a shop that sold masks. The mask he chose was a very popular one, though very few people knew it was a reproduction of the death mask of a 16yr-old girl who'd been pulled from the Seine river in Paris in the 1800s. She had drowned.

The girl was never identified. (she's the one on the right)

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Murrmurr said:
The first manikins used for teaching CPR were all female, so as not to intimidate students. She was commonly referred to as Rescue Annie or Resusci Annie.

The owner of the company that produced Rescue Annie wanted her to have a face that was completely non-threatening, even serene. He found it at a shop that sold masks. The mask he chose was a very popular one, though very few people knew it was a reproduction of the death mask of a 16yr-old girl who'd been pulled from the Seine river in Paris in the 1800s. She had drowned.

The girl was never identified. (she's the one on the right)

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Well, that's kinda creepy. 👻
 
RadishRose said:
The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.”

Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.

Back when dinosaurs existed, there used to be volcanoes that were erupting on the moon.
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"Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt."😄
Gosh, I didn't know that. But I'll mention that my DW expresses, with irritation, rather frequently that I've done some petty thing (or didn't do some petty thing) that's not quite to her liking. So, sigh, I wind up saying 'sorry' too often (in my estimation). However I can say, typically no feeling of guilt goes with it.😌
 

On statues, a horse’s legs tell you how
the statue Knight died.​

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If a horse has both its front legs in the air,
then the person died in battle.

If the horse has one of its front legs in the air,
they died of wounds received from a battle.

And if the horse has both its front legs on the
ground, then the person died of natural causes.

Mike.
 
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