Lie of the Day #980
July 14th, 2009 by FweebThe age-old addage of “you are what you eat” is absolutely true. John Franklin Brimstoker of southern Wisconsin learned this to be true in 1954 after he ate a solid steel rod. When he did this, his body became as hard as steel. Unfortunately, this also made him completely immobile; so much so that people initially believed that he’d died. Without the ability to move his jaw and eat anything softer, he’s lived to this day as a statue-like roof ornament at the top of the Empire State Building.