[Athena E.]

Fact of the Day: The man who ate a plane?!​

Meet Michel Lotito, also known as Monsieur Mangetout ('Mr. Eat-All') — the French performer who literally ate the impossible. Over his lifetime, Michel consumed an astonishing array of objects: metal, glass, rubber, and even entire items like bicycles, shopping carts, a waterbed, and yes… an actual Cessna 150 aeroplane.

Source: @Bouteflikov / X (Twitter)

Diagnosed with a rare condition called pica, which causes cravings for non-food items, his stomach lining was unusually thick, allowing him to digest things that would seriously harm most people.

Between 1959 and 1997, it’s estimated that Michel consumed nearly 9 tons of metal. He’d break objects into small pieces, wash them down with mineral oil, and munch away like it was nothing.

Source: Guinness World Records / YouTube​

Fascinating, eh? Could you stomach something like that? Let us know in the comments!

 

[Littleboy8]

I watched him eating the plane and various other things on a documentary a couple of months ago, it was fascinating. Although it did have me reaching for the quickeze.

 

[Clancieblue]

I watched him eating the plane and various other things on a documentary a couple of months ago, it was fascinating. Although it did have me reaching for the quickeze.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

 

[Still Ebby]

Must have a screw loose

 

[Littleboy8]

Must have a screw loose

Yeah in his stomach now

 

[Still Ebby]

Yeah in his stomach now

Precisely but wonder what happens when he goes to the loo! He must have loads of broken toilets

 

[Sinikka Pollari]

Must have a screw loose

Or two

 

[Littleboy8]

Precisely but wonder what happens when he goes to the loo! He must have loads of broken toilets

definately