Wow, I never knew that!

Because I feel like I am coming down with a cold I thought I would find all the interesting things about the common cold that I could. Here are a few of them. I hope you are enlightened by them and if you excuse I need to go blow my nose.

For example did you know that the first person to be diagnosed with the common cold was John Commons in 1611? Or that John promptly infected William Shakespeare with his cold. As a result William Shakespeare claimed that the cold made his love sickness worse which inspired him to write several sonnets.

Resource: http://www.4to40.com/omg/index.asp?id=2163&category=city

Did you know that there are more then 200 different viruses that can cause cold symptoms?

Resource: http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/diseases/common_cold.html

I think I have had all of then at least once.

Or did you know that the average person gets over 100 colds in their life time?

And very importantly did you know that vitamin C has shown no effect in preventy8ng the catching of a cold or in the curing of a cold and can actually be harmful to the kidneys if taken in large quantities?

Resource: http://novan.com/common-cold.htm

I am pretty sure I have already had more then my fair share.

Also did you know that a sneeze can travel at 100 miles per hour?

Resource: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-09/938695934.Gb.r.html

That is very fast probably the fastest I have ever done anything in my entire life.

And finally do you know why we say God bless you or gesundheit to some one when they sneeze? Well it’s because thousand of years ago the Greeks would say Jupiter preserve you or salve which means good health y to you. This was later changed to God bless you by Pope Gregory the Great who said it during the bubonic plague when people who contracted the disease here one of the signs of the plague was copiously sneezing And that gesundheit which is a German word meaning health is said when a person sneezes because sneezing very often proceeded ill health.

Resource: http://health.howstuffworks.com/sneezing.htm

I am done now and I am going to take my stuffy nose, scratchy throat and achy head and go to bed. See you later.