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Today's Random Fact:
The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrizi, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose of the Great Sphinx in Egypt to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism. A story claims that the nose was broken off by a cannonball fired by Napoleon's soldiers and that legend still lives on today.


Bonus Fact:
Despite many people's beliefs, the flu shot does not infect you with the virus. In fact, the influenza viruses in a flu shot are inactivated, or killed, and they cannot cause an infection. Some people experience soreness or redness near the injection site after vaccination, but it does not cause flu illness.