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BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

TIL that a Frenchman ate a plane

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TIL that a Frenchman ate a plane

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BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      The amount of metals, plastics, and other plane parts that he would have had to consume should have done lasting damage to his physiology.

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        If heground everything to a fine powder and juiced it then he is just left with the chemical reaction damage.

    • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldOP
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      One was pooping scrap, the other was scrapping poop

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, the title should be “claimed to eat a plane”.

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    Journalist: So, how was it?

    Lotito: Still better than English food!

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      I can absolutely believe this would have been his answer.

      French people cannot pass a chance to make fun of British cuisine.

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        cuisine

        It’s so bad, they have to use a french word to make it sound palatable.

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    Lotito holds the record for the ‘strangest diet’ in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award.

    I would expect nothing less.

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    Maddening that the article doesn’t list his cause of death. What did he die of??

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      Natural causes!

      • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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        No, iron deficiency

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          Irony deficiency.

      • watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Well, I’ll be damned. Also, the chompers on the man look exactly like what I’d expect for a plane-eater.

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      He tried to poop out an entire airplane.

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    That is an ancient looking 55 year old.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      Let me tell you his diet!

    • espentan@lemmy.world
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      Eating a plane really accelerates the ageing process.

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        Some say it adds dimension to you time line.

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    His colon and entire digestive system has to be absolutely wrecked.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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      FWIW he died at age 55.

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      It’s not that bad : the plane wasn’t made by Boeing.

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      According to this article his stomach and intestines had unusual thick lining and strong gastric acids, so maybe they were not so bad.

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    Where does the man shit? I’d hate to be his landlord

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      That’s such a good point I hadn’t considered. This stuff would’ve absolutely fucked up the plumbing in most places. Not to mention the sewage treatment facility’s filters having to deal with all that debris.

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    However, it also meant that soft foods, such as bananas and hard-boiled eggs, made him sick.

    Hmm best example of soft food? Hard-boiled eggs!

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      Hard boiled eggs are pretty soft, tbh

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        I’ve never been a fan of how crunchy they are, though.

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        Soft boiled eggs are softer

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    When I read the title, my first guess was Tarare. Sounds like the kind of thing he’d’ve done if planes had been invented.

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    Imagine the gate agent having to tell the passengers why their flight is canceled.

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    That’s cute, but doesn’t quite hold a candle to Tarrare.

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    Wow France cuisine must really suck

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    What a poseur.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owYClOcZsCg&t=222s

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      jesus christ, did he fuck your mom?

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          Homie made a career out of pica. Like it or not he was a better entrepreneur than you or I.

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              Given he was born in 1950, he only died like 10 years below his life expectancy. People lose more than that to bad genes, I think he did alright for himself.

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