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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. (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is an important part of the plot of the genial surrealist book Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian from 1947. Film adaptation titled Mood Indigo is also very good.

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