anatomy
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A Man Tore His Lung From Masturbating, Doctors Say
A young man’s session of masturbation inadvertently led to him spending almost a week in the hospital. In a recent case report from Switzerland, doctors detail how a 20-year-old ended up with air leaking into his chest after some seemingly innocent self-love. Fortunately, the injury wasn’t severe and he recuperated just fine.
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Human Spines Threaded Onto Posts Found at 500-Year-Old Burial Site in Peru
Archaeologists working along the southern coast of Peru have unearthed nearly 200 reed posts adorned with human vertebrae. Sound macabre, but these spines on spikes may have been a response to the Colonial-period looting of graves.
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Facebook Patented a Mechanical Eyeball
It’s well known at this point that the company previously known as Facebook is spending billions of dollars in resources to transport as many of its users as possible out of the real world and plop them into an avatar-filled metaverse. What’s less talked about though are the ways Meta is simultaneously adding quintessentially human…
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Nail Lodged in Skeleton’s Foot Is First Evidence of Crucifixion in England
Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have unearthed a skeleton with a nail protruding from its right heel bone. The remains likely belonged to a man who was crucified by the Romans, in what is an exceptionally rare discovery.