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(March 1809, London) Silverware is used daily as a necessity during meals. Obviously, these tools are used to help people eat, and not to be eaten.

However, John Cummings believed knives to actually be edible. When he saw a circus sword swallower put a knife in his mouth, he genuinely thought you could eat knives. John tasted a knife afterwards, and for some reason loved it.

John kept consuming knives each day. On one occasion, he ate 4 knives and quickly passed 3 with no ill-health. He later swallowed 14 knives and after some days with abdominal pain he passed all of them. He finally swallowed 20 knives and a case but after a few days he had only passed the case.

He continued this odd hobby for FOUR YEARS. When Cummings time finally came coming, doctors found a knife blade and spring were found in his intestines, and between 30 to 40 fragments of metal, wood, and horn in his stomach.

What the actual Hell.

Submitted on 12/19/2020

Submitted by: Hugh D
Reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539548/

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Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Okay, for some reason we don't seem to have this in our archives, and that is an excellent source. I've never heard this one! Thank you, Hugh!


Tracy said:
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Hmmm... that's a good story, and good links... maybe the Darwin Awards should have been around 200 years ago