11. Queen Victoria insisted on being buried with the bathrobe of her long-dead husband,
Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.
( ya salam )
12. If this doesn't work, we're trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called "famadihana." The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the connubial bed.
( Savage )
13. Sometimes, under the right conditions of temperature and humidity, fatty tissue of a buried body will turn to a soap-like substance called adipocere, or grave wax. Adipocere formation relies on a cold, damp environment and an absence of oxygen; once begun, this saponification can continue for centuries.
14. Well, yeah, there's a slight chance this could backfire: English philosopher
Francis Bacon, a founder of the
scientific method, died in 1626 of
pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it.
15. For organs to form during embryonic development, some
cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we would all be born with webbed feet, like ducks.