5 Facts of Randomness
In Madagascar, traditional 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.
During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.
80% of people in the United States die in a hospital.
Before the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1952, 25% of the males in the country were Buddhist monks.
American executives work an average 57 hours a week, but just 22% say their hours are a major cause of stress.