Famous Body Parts on Public Display



You may leave instructions for the disposal of your earthly remains after death, but you really can't control what happens after you die. That goes double if you're famous. It's one thing to bequeath your body to science for the good of mankind and quite another to end up with your body, or a part of it, on display at some museum for people to look at. The danger is even greater when you are a head of state of some kind, beloved or not. Weird History goes through a list of 21 people (if I counted right) who ended up in that predicament. We've covered some of these before at Neatorama, especially in our long-running restless corpse series, but not all of them. I had an immediate reaction to the story about Rasputin (spoiler ahead) because "the organ actually belonged to a cow" doesn't make any sense, because cows are female. Try a bull.


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