25/09/2020
This man ate an entire airplane. He finished his meal after 2 years and also ate a bike, bed, computer, and more 😮
Michel Lotito, known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mr. Eat-All"), was a French entertainer, born in Grenoble, who was famous for deliberately eating indigestible objects such as metal and glass.
His unusual eating habits began in 1959 when he was a teenager. He first became aware of his ability when a glass from which he was drinking broke and he began chewing the fragments.
Doctors found that Lotito had a thick lining in his stomach and intestines which allowed him to consume sharp metal without suffering injury.
His digestive juices were also unusually powerful, meaning that he could digest the unusual materials. But this also meant that soft foods, such as bananas and hard-boiled eggs, made him sick.
Lotito gave performances demonstrating his unique talent, which involved consumption of metal, glass, rubber and other materials.
His diet since 1966 included 18 bicycles, 15 supermarket trolleys, seven TV sets, six chandeliers, two beds, a pair of skis, a Cessna 150 light aircraft and a computer.
The Cessna 150 took roughly two years to be "eaten", from 1978 to 1980.
Despite consuming substances typically considered poisonous, Lotito claimed to not have suffered any ill effects.
When performing, he ingested approximately 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of material daily. Between 1959 and 1997, it's estimated that Lotito had eaten nearly 9 tons of metal.
His method for eating all of this metal was to break it into small pieces before attempting to eat it. He then drank mineral oil and continued to drink water while swallowing the metal bits. This acted as a lubricant to help the metal slide down his throat. Lotito had no problem "passing" his unusual diet.
Lotito holds the Guinness world record for the 'strangest diet'. He was awarded a brass plaque to commemorate his abilities... but he consumed that as well!
Monsieur Mangetout died of natural causes on June 25, 2007, ten days after his 57th birthday. He is buried at Saint Roch Cemetery in his hometown of Grenoble.
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