Penises, Brains and Skulls: The Most Amazing Stolen Body Parts

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A queen’s heart. A dictator’s brain. A king’s penis? Revisit the bizarre history of stolen body parts.Last week, we looked into the puzzling possibility that Egyptian King Tut’s penis was swapped after his death to hide his small size. Even Stephen Colbert was baffled by the mystery. Surely this switcheroo is the strangest case of body parts gone AWOL, right? Maybe not. TIME looked into the anatomical lost and found box and you wouldn’t believe what we discovered. Hint: Tut isn’t the only famous dead ruler with a missing member.

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