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What was originally called the word weather?

The word "weather" originally characterized only good weather, and "bad weather" was its direct antonym. The single-root adjective "fine" is still used only in the meaning of "clear". Etymologically, the weather goes back to the common Slavic root "year", from which the words "suitable", "suitable" are also formed in Russian.

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How long does it take for a person's nails and hair to grow after death?

"Three days after death, our nails and hair continue to grow, and phone calls come to naught" - one of the last jokes of the great Johnny Carson.

However, here the famous TV presenter, who has been entertaining the audience for decades, is clearly mistaken. All this is XNUMX% fiction. When a person dies, their body becomes dehydrated and their skin tightens, which creates the illusion of hair and nails growing.

Humanity owes much of this misconception to Erich Maria Remarque and his classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front, in which Paul Bäumer, on whose behalf the story is being told, talks about the death of his friend Kemmerich: “It suddenly occurs to me that these nails will not stop growing, and after Kemmerich dies, they will continue to grow for a long, long time, like ghost white mushrooms in a cellar.I imagine this picture: they twist like a corkscrew and keep growing and growing, and with them the hairs on a rotting skull grow like grass on rich soil, just like grass..."

Despite all this, "life" after death does not stop; moreover, your corpse will literally bloom, so to speak, in a violent color. Bacteria, bugs, mites and worms - for them the time comes for a real feast, which greatly contributes to the decomposition process.

One of the most enthusiastic habitues of your body will be the so-called phrorid - it is also a humpback fly, or "coffin fly". This fly - also known as the "hurry fly" because of its clumsy flight - is able to spend its entire life underground, feeding solely on rotting corpses.

Humpbacks are especially greedy for human flesh. It is common for these flies to dig a meter deep into the soil to reach the coffin.

A species of humpback fly, from the genus Arosephalus, was recently used to control a thriving population of fire ants (or Aztec ants) introduced to the American Southeast in the 1930s by a Brazilian merchant ship. Flies lay their eggs in the heads of ants. The larvae feed on the contents of the ant heads and hatch out after a few days.

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