“On this day in 600, Pope Gregory the Great put out a decree saying “God bless you” was the correct response to a sneeze. Seriously! That was in Italy, but there was another philosophy on sneeze responses in Germany where the Emperor ordered that the proper response to a sneeze was “Gesundheit!” Funny thing; the Pope was so admant that sneezes in public be responded to properly, but on farts, he was silent.”
