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People Swallow the Darndest Things: Cigarette Butts, Burnt Matches and More [Wtf]

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at Gizmodo # 2011-04-28.

A museum exhibit at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia is pretty strange even by wacko museum standards. It documents the things that people have swallowed—the number is in the thousands by the way—as collected by Chevalier Jackson, a pioneering laryngologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More »