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In 2022, Madison Dapcevich of Snopes, the fact-checking website, investigated Lotito’s claim that he ate an entire airplane. She concluded that, although there are many accounts of Lotito’s consumption of unusual objects, and that he “very likely” consumed such objects on stage as a professional entertainer, she was unable to confirm that Lotito ate an entire airplane, or even part of one.

Looks like there’s no real record of him having eaten a plane. Likely a tall story he or his cohorts created.

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The amount of metals, plastics, and other plane parts that he would have had to consume should have done lasting damage to his physiology.

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If heground everything to a fine powder and juiced it then he is just left with the chemical reaction damage.

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Yeah, the title should be “claimed to eat a plane”.

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One was pooping scrap, the other was scrapping poop

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Journalist: So, how was it?

Lotito: Still better than English food!

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I can absolutely believe this would have been his answer.

French people cannot pass a chance to make fun of British cuisine.

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cuisine

It’s so bad, they have to use a french word to make it sound palatable.

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Lotito holds the record for the ‘strangest diet’ in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award.

I would expect nothing less.

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Maddening that the article doesn’t list his cause of death. What did he die of??

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Natural causes!

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No, iron deficiency

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Irony deficiency.

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Well, I’ll be damned. Also, the chompers on the man look exactly like what I’d expect for a plane-eater.

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He tried to poop out an entire airplane.

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That is an ancient looking 55 year old.

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Eating a plane really accelerates the ageing process.

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Some say it adds dimension to you time line.

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Let me tell you his diet!

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