The Fact Is…6/20

The Fact Is...

In ancient Phoenician Sardinia, whenever elderly people were no longer able to support themselves, they were given a neurotoxic plant called “sardonic herb” and thrown off of a cliff. It is the source of the term “sardonic grin” because of the facial expression the plant caused following death.

**Awe, Grandma looks so happy...falling from that cliff.  Good riddance!