The last meal is a tradition that allows death row inmates to choose anything they want for their last meal. Some of the most common choices are chicken fried steak, cheeseburgers and mexican food. Other less conventional choices death row inmates have made are:
Companies such as Everlasting Memories and Life Gem allow you to turn your deceased loved ones into diamonds. This special diamond is known as a cremation diamond or a memorial diamond.
The diamond can be made out of the ashes of a loved one or from a lock of their hair. The process creates high-quality diamonds that are used as memoriams of your loved ones.
You can choose from colorless, blue, yellow, red or green gems.
What could be better than wearing grandma around as a ring?
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It happened in 1982 at the University of Alabama, school of Medicine. A class of med students were presented with 9 different cadavers that they would dissect. Even thought the student was not assigned to it, she recognized one of the cadavers... it was her great aunt. The state anatomical board replaced the cadaver immediately. |
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In the original draft of Back To The Future, the time machine was a laser device that gets attached to a refrigerator, and taken to the Nevada desert test site for the atomic bomb. The fridge gets strapped to the back of a truck and then is driven into the explosion to harness it’s power for time travel. Marty climbs into the fridge as the truck barrels down to the explosion. 
One study conducted by David Merrill exposed mice to heavy metal 24 hours a day. The band chosen was Anthrax. The purpose of the study was to see how the heavy metal would affect their ability to learn new things. 
