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    Among other things, ancient Egyptian embalmers preserved mummies with cinnamon.

    When a person is dying, hearing is the last sense to go. Sight is the first.

    The most common word spoken by a dying person is “”mother”” or “”mommy.””

    Tombstones were originally put over graves so the dead couldn’t escape.

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