The metal straw is preserved and remains a famous medical specimen at the Anatomy and Pathology Museum at UC San Francisco.

  • Dave@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah this didn’t happen.

    But people do chip their teeth on metal straws, so it’s still a bad idea to use them in cars without those silicone bumpers.

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      2 days ago

      No shit Sherlock … Phineas Gage famously was impaled through the skull by a railroad rod. It’s a joke.

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      Youre right it was a large metal rod that went though his head. It also wasnt while driving it was an explosion or something, I don’t remember just find his wiki page. Shockingly he lived.