Miscellaneous Bits of Information

Ancient Mold Remediators (Old Testament)

Leviticus 14:
"If the spots have spread in the wall, then the priest shall order the removal of the spotted section of the wall, and the materials must be thrown into a defiled place outside the city.

Then he shall order the inside walls of the house to be scraped thoroughly, and the scrapings dumped in a defiled place outside the city.

Other stones shall be brought in to replace those that have been removed, new mortar used, and the house re-plastered."
 

It started 2,400 years ago as a single spore invisible to the naked eye then grew to become a 3.5 mile-wide mushroom.  Dubbed "the humongous fungus," this honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) covers some 2,200 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest. (from MicrobeWorld.org)
 

The mummified head of Pharaoh Ramses V, who reigned 3,000 years ago, was reported to have had smallpox scars.  
 

This old expression ties to the practice of picking clumps of lice eggs (nits) out of peoples hair.  (Lice infestation was common in past generations.)
 

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