Did you know …
That Thomas Edison was born with two heads? It’s true! Or at least it’s true according to the stories he used to tell Nikola Tesla to frighten the young Croatian.
Edison would stand behind him as Tesla worked, and whisper that he had been born with a second head growing from his upper arm, and that the head told him secrets, including secrets about Tesla, and that one day he had decided to eat the arm-head, which was soft and could barely fight back. Then Edison would ask Tesla to look at the scar on his cheek, where he said the other head had bitten him in self defense, and at that point Tesla would usually run away crying.
Edison was a real rascal!
After Edison’s death, an autopsy could find no evidence that he had had a conjoined or parasitic twin, although his right bicep was indeed covered in bite marks.
On a related note, many science historians believe that this was why Tesla eventually invented tape (covered in a previous Daily Science Fact); so that society could create and, more importantly, destroy their two headed monsters much more easily.
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