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garfaagel@sh.itjust.works to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

TIL that a 28 year old Russian man went to the doctor for coughing up blood and having chest pains. The doctors diagnosed it as cancer, but it turned out to be a fir tree growing inside his lungs.

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TIL that a 28 year old Russian man went to the doctor for coughing up blood and having chest pains. The doctors diagnosed it as cancer, but it turned out to be a fir tree growing inside his lungs.

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Surgeons find fir tree 'growing inside patient's lung'
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    In Russian, the plural of the word for “fir-tree” and the plural past tense of “to eat” are homonyms: both are ели yeli.

    But even in Russia you are not supposed to breathe them.

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