Please Don’t Ask How I Know These 27 Facts, But They’re Fascinating As Hell

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“A severed human head has a strange, uneven weight distribution. So, you had better hold it tight, or you’ll be known as the guy who dropped the head.”

“OK, story time. I’m not in forensics or a doctor (or a killer, I swear!). I have a friend who works in a university. He prepares corpses for anatomical studies for med students. I was always interested in this stuff, so one evening, over a beer, he asked if I wanted to watch. Of course, I agreed.

He’s very enthusiastic in his field, so it was like, ‘If you stick your finger in this (leg) vein, you’ll feel the venous valve’ all the time. Super interesting! His task was to get out individual parts and organs for use by the med students later, so he removed the heart, lungs, kidneys, intestines, etc.

Then he cut into the skin of the head and removed the face and the hair part so he could saw the skull open for the brain. The head was loose by now (I can’t remember if he cut it; it was 20 years ago), so he asked me to hold it. It was slippery AF, so it did not go the way we wanted, and it landed on the floor. When I picked it up, I noticed the uneven weight. As I said, it was a long time ago, but my friend still teases me about it.”

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