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MICHEL LOTITO: THE MAN WHO ATE AN AIRPLANE
Would you snack on a bicycle? How about a TV set or a shopping cart? Sounds completely absurd, but Michel Lotito — a French performer known to fans as “Monsieur Mangetout” (Mr. Eat All) — did exactly that. Although he certainly got attention, Lotito wasn’t just looking for it; his peculiar diet came from a rare condition called pica. People with pica crave non-edible objects, though
years to finish every last nut and bolt. How did he do it without getting hurt? Carefully and one bite at a time. Michel chopped objects into tiny bits and sipped mineral oil to help everything slide down smoothly.
Lotito’s feats earned him a place in the “Guinness Book of World Records,” but his true legacy is simpler: He
very few act on these cravings. But Michel didn’t hold back. Doctors found he had an unusually strong digestive system and a thick stomach lining. These traits allowed him to safely digest things most people wouldn’t put near their mouths, let alone swallow. The list of items Lotito managed to consume is hard to believe. He once famously ate an entire Cessna plane, taking two
got people thinking. Scientists, doctors, and everyday observers began to wonder how adaptable — and, frankly, strange — the human body can be.
Michel Lotito passed away in 2007 at 57, but his legend lives on. A guy who casually munched on bicycles might
seem easy to dismiss, but his “normal” shows us that reality is sometimes far stranger than fiction.
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