47 - William McKenna the "Human Ostrich"

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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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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