News of the Weird: Save the Trees

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28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin stunned surgeons after he showed up at a Russian hospital, coughing up blood and complaining of chest pains. Thinking he had cancer, the surgeons rushed to remove a tumor, but were shocked to find something more interesting growing in his lungs. “I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things,” said one doctor. There in his lung was a 2-inch long fir tree. It’s now assumed that Artyom accidentally inhaled a small seed that started to grow inside his lung. The tree got so large that it started digging into his lungs and that’s when he showed up at the hospital. Talk about going green

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