Is it still Halloweek? It is! Let’s see what sort of fact tumbles out of this jug, the stoneware one with a skull and a bunch of X's on it.
Did you know …
That scientists didn’t formally discover the human skeleton until the 1920s? It’s true! Before then, everyone assumed that the body was supported by a system of fluid-filled tubes, similar to that of an octopus.
In 1922, however, an Italian anatomist, Gaspare Civinini, began to wonder why his body seemed so permanently rigid after he was stuck in the air vent of a bakery. Civinini had been stealing sweet rolls when the baker came in, and attempted to escape through the vent, but, of course, he quickly became trapped. After the Italian constables (or whatever passes for law enforcement over there) extricated him, and after he paid the customary bribes, Civinini strolled down the street to a nearby dog food factory to examine the bodies of poorer criminals waiting in the hoppers.
A cry of “Scheletro!” was soon heard across the village, and from that day on skeletons would take the place of man-shaped balloon animals in Halloween yard decorations! Also in textbooks and stuff too, I guess.
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