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No Such Thing As A Fish

371: No Such Thing As A Welcome Lasagne

Apr 30, 2021
The podcast discusses topics such as Tetris championships, the belief in the usefulness of cow urine in India, medical operations and bone reconstruction, intriguing medical tales, unconventional collection and storage of body parts, and the origins of unusual baby names.
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Quick takeaways

  • In Hawaii, children were given the names A, B, C, D, or E due to the local alphabet's absence of those letters.
  • A woman in the UK had her shin bone removed, irradiated, and reinstalled in her leg as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deep dives

Children in Hawaii given the name 'Absidy'

In 1990, five children in Hawaii were given the first name spelled A, B, C, D, E, or Absidy. The local alphabet in Hawaii does not contain the letters B, C, or D.

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