There’s likely nothing that stimulates one’s curiosity about the cough. Cough can be wet, whopping or dry. You could fake a cough to relieve you from embarrassment, or blast 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 recognize about the cough.

Super fast is how cough travels, that is why it is common. Cough moves swifter than a mere mortal. It’s at 60 miles per hour, the speed of cough!

Here’s one intriguing information about the cough: snail gunk could be a remedy for it. In Chile, snail guck is commercialized as a treatment for the common cough. Avers the proprietor of the snail farm, antibiotics are in these slimey secretions and they work well against cough. In Chile, at least, cough medications from snail slime come in strawberry and avocado flavors.

But long before the snail and its gunk, otc and prescription cough syrup formulations were derived from addicting substances… or didn’t you know? Yes, drugs were given freely then, even to children! Opiates and heroine were the origin of cough syrup in the 1800s!

The destinies of cough syrup and Jello looked to have been intertwined, too. Closing his factory of cough syrup, Pearl B. Wait decided to venture into something else. He opted to better the nasty-tasting gelatine and gave the world Jello, in fruity flavors.

Cough even caused execution- a not-so-known trivia. Yes, in 1799, Napoleon was ruminating whether to free his 1,200 Turkish captives or not. But he coughed and cried “Ma sacr toux!” (translation: My darned cough!) But his soldiers believed he pronounced, “Massacrez tous!,” which meant “kill them all!” And so, they did.

Does coughing bring on hearing deterioration, as well?

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