ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] The patient's rare condition is called pica, a compulsion
] ] to eat things not normally consumed as food. Its name
] ] comes from the Latin word for magpie, a bird thought to
] ] eat just about anything.
] ]
] ] Pica can take the form of eating dirt, ashes, chalk,
] ] hair, soap, toothbrushes, burned matches and many other
] ] things. Francois once treated a patient who ate forks.
] ] Most such objects are small enough to pass on their own,
] ] but some must be removed by doctors.
]
] how have human's survived the evolutionary ladder this
] long....

Ewwwwwwwww and I thought it was bad when the dog ate p00 :(
We at least know better!!

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