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There’s nothing odd about the cough. There’s dry cough, whopping cough, wet cough. You could fake a cough to save you from embarrassment, or shoot dagger looks at someone coughing to your face; worse, you could be having a coughing fit. But really, there seems to be a lot more you many not know about the cough.

Super fast is how cough travels, that is why it is common. Swifter than an ordinary individual is how fast cough travels. Imagine, cough can move at 60 miles an hour!

Another newsworthy information about cough is that snail slime could be a remedy for it. Yes, snail slime is being marketed in Chile as a treatment for the ordinary cough. Says the proprietor of the snail farm, antibiotics are in these slimey secretions and they work well against cough. In Chile, at least, cough medicines from snail slime come in strawberry and avocado flavours.

But long before the snail and its guck, otc and prescription cough syrup preparations were derived from addicting substances… or didn’t you know? Yes, drugs were given freely then, even to babies! Cough syrup in the 1800s were formulated from opiates and heroine!

Jello and cough syrup appeared to be fated to be together, though. Having decided to branch out into something else, Pearl B. Wait closed up his cough syrup factory. Jello in fruity flavors was his next enterprise, which vastly improved the nasty-tasting gelatine.

Another not-so-known trivia about the ordinary cough is that it actually induced… murder?! The year was 1799, and Napoleon was considering freeing his 1,200 Turkish prisoners. However, he had a coughing fit, and exclaimed, “Ma sacr toux”, meaning, “My darned cough!” But his soldiers misheard, and thought he said, “Massacrez tous!” meaning, “Kill them all!” That they certainly did.

Cough causes hearing disability, too?

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