via theweek.com
A 76-year-old British woman recently checked herself into a hospital in England with complaints of diarrhea and weight loss. When doctors examined her, they found an unrelated problem: A felt-tipped pen that had been stuck in her stomach for 25 years. The patient recalled having used the blunt end of the pen to "inspect a spot on her tonsils when she slipped, fell, and accidentally swallowed the pen," says ABC News. The pen had never caused her any problems, despite being in her stomach for more than two decades. When the team of doctors "fished the pen out of its gastrointestinal hiding place, they found that it still wrote clearly." Here, five other strange objects found in the stomachs of patients across the globe...
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