Aug 31 2023 14 mins 77
For today's story we will be diving into the life of a truly extraordinary man named William V McKenna, and while he fits the category of “people who eat random things”, those things that he ate can’t really be classified as food.
So let's see just how this man, William McKenna first discovered his talented digestive system.
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So let's see just how this man, William McKenna first discovered his talented digestive system.
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Sources for this episode's research:
- https://www.picuki.com/tag/humanostrich
- https://www.weirdhistorian.com/appetite-for-intestinal-destruction-the-man-who-ate-glass-nails-tacks-and-frogs/
- https://historianandrew.medium.com/william-mckenna-the-human-ostrich-who-made-a-living-eating-nails-glass-and-live-frogs-dd1697a3c7d5
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