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No Such Thing As A Fish

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Did James Garfield Eat Everything Through His Anus?

James Garfield was shot in July 1881 and lived for a further 80 days. Doctors now say he would have been out of hospital about two or three days later. In 1881 they just invited dozens of doctors to his bedside who all prodded around trying to find this bullet. They didn't know where the bullet had gone in his body. So they gathered around, prodded about, made him worse and worse. He stopped being able to eat and obviously if you stop being able to consume food in those days, they just shoved it up your ass. And so that's what they did. His party trick was he could write Latin in one hand and Greek with the other

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