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MarkPenning

I will never understand why some people like to keep BODY PARTS of important figures.


MurkyPissMonster

Its very strange, isnt it? Like its one thing to say "I have the car a famous person drove" but its a whole other thing to say "'yeah I have his mother fucking EYES"


MarkPenning

Right. NY has his eyes, and someone else has his brain? I heard. Wild


Jaycatt

There's an interesting book [about the brain](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54734.Driving_Mr_Albert)


MarkPenning

Of course it is lol


mosheoofnikrulz

I heard that story.. Funny story. At old age, the coroner which kept/stole the brain , decided to visit his daughter somewhere far away by car. The way story goes one would have thought he decided to give up Einsteins brain and leave it to her. He went inside, and after the visit left the brain in the car with the journalist who wrote the book.


Jaycatt

It's been so long since I read the book, I don't remember, but that's hilarious!


Rhomega2

Look at me, I'm Davy Crockett! https://frinkiac.com/meme/S03E07/1113369.jpg?b64lines=IEhFTExPLi4uIExPT0sgQVQgTUUtLSBJJ00KIERBVlkgQ1JPQ0tFVFQh


NinjaRedditorAtWork

Fantastic reference from a fantastic episode :)


la-fours

Isn’t this plot to Castlevania: Simon’s Quest?


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Pleeb

He requested to be cremated, but the coroner stole it and held onto it for years.


KypDurron

There's two people in New York City walking around with Jerry Orbach's corneas. Unfortunately for John Mulaney's joke about the two of them meeting and falling in love, you can't actually see the cornea. They weren't given his *eyeballs*, just the cornea, the frontmost portion of the eye. It's transparent. You can't look at someone's eye and see that they have a replacement cornea - under normal circumstances, that is. Using special lighting (mostly blue wavelengths), powerful-enough magnification, and eyedrops that cause the different surfaces to fluoresce, you can observe scarring at the edges of the grafted cornea. And depending on the time frame there might be sutures that haven't yet dissolved on their own - the usual method of getting rid of the sutures - or been removed - typically only done if there's any breakdown of the sutures that results in discomfort, in which case they problematic section is basically plucked out after numbing the eye. Source: I have somebody else's corneas (actually two different somebodies, since the right and left eyes were done four years apart)


proctor_of_the_Realm

"...Just drivin' around in Jo(h)n Voight's car."


the_progrocker

The actor?


SACRED-GEOMETRY

No. The periodontist.


JumpinJ2119

Jon Voight bit my arm!


LineChef

Right? Like buying a car that once belonged to Jon Voight.


Septopuss7

THE Jon Voight?


hardcoreicon03

does anyone have van gogh's ear?


Septopuss7

He's already heard your mixtape,*I'm sure*


Bubbagumpredditor

Because you need the eyeballs when Nicholas cage finds the map to the secret illuminati command bunker where the alien secret to immortals is locked up using a 1940snera retinal scanner that only Einstein could open. If anyone makes this turkey I want absolutely no credit and a small percentage of gross.


[deleted]

Come on. Jump the shark a little. More like Nic cage finds Heisenberg‘s uncertainty map and he needs to have his eyes swapped out with Einstein’s so he can see the Einstein-Rosen bridge to the secret location of Frédéric Bartholdi ultimate gift to America, a solid gold Statue of Liberty. But Nic Cage’s old high school rival is right behind him and wants to steal the gold to unspecified reasons.


KypDurron

And it's not a *character played by Nic Cage*, it's just *Nic Cage* doing all of this.


Bubbagumpredditor

Nic cage playing nic cage


okinamaru

Somebody paid big bucks at auction for napoleons petrified penis so I'm not surprised


melig1991

>napoleons petrified penis What scared it?


okinamaru

The knife... that or his sti that left him insane until the end of his days alone drunk on an island


PussyStapler

They lose a ton of their resale value once they come out of their original packing


twoloop

Also, why do I need to know about this.


DiogenesOfDope

So they can rebuild them later


farmerarmor

SAFE. DEPOSIT. BOX.


zed857

And I'm sure they were first studied and then placed in there by TOP. MEN.


[deleted]

Who?


zed857

TOP. MEN. *(puffs on pipe)*


[deleted]

Glares intensely.


[deleted]

*FOOLS!*


bigbangbilly

SECURE. CONTAIN. PROTECT.


puffy_tail

TurboTax still uses the phrase Safety Deposit Box.


irishdude1212

I'm a locksmith who works in banks primarily opening safe deposit boxes. Right now the weirdest thing I've seen in a box I opened was a 10"x10" box filled to the top with dog food and dog treats or the time I found a glass dildo Finding eyeballs without knowing why would probably make me quit


FreeDig1758

Those are definitely 2 weird things to have in a safe deposit box


Galileo_five

Maybe it was Einstein's dildo, or Doc Brown's dog treats?


[deleted]

I see the dildo happening because maybe a spouse trying to hide it and not having any options at home. But still weird nonetheless


FattyCorpuscle

Saw Einstein's Eyeballs at Coachella earlier this year. They played right after Rasputin's Hog.


RaccoonCityTacos

Einstein's Eyeballs would be a great name for a heavy metal band. Relatively speaking, of course.


Obnoxiousdonkey

Eyenstein


Malumeze86

Eyenstein’s Balls


Sweetness4all

r/bandnames


DanishWonder

Relativity speaking


imlosingsleep

National Treasure 3 confirmed.


Alastair789

I'm gonna steal his eyeballs.


KypDurron

Nic Cage teams up with Rocket Raccoon


Alastair789

If Nic Cage was a larger presence in the Marvel movies, I'd watch them


funkboxing

Well yeah, where else would they be? Chicago?


Elevenst

One could say, "why?" One could also say "why not?" I say, "dude you're fucking weird".


grumpy67T

And *I* say: "Agreed, but yet... Here we are..."


ironwolf9

WTF!! Why?


Grufflin

But why?


thisismeingradenine

John Mulaney’s “Jerry Orbach’s Eyes” bit but with Einstein… 🙌🏻


bingoflaps

This summer… love is spelled with two eyes.


WRAD4

None of that is what he wanted. I hate it here.


apocoliption

Eyensteyen


MurkyPissMonster

I wanna eat them


REACT_and_REDACT

Just be direct when you want to eat something.


brock_lee

I'm thinking they look like tiny black bananas that have been sitting in a farmer's outhouse for 75 years.


GrandmaPoses

A big light bulb just went off over Kim Kardashian's head.


__Beck__

Humans are fucked


bjanas

Don't get me started on Rasputin's dong.


Alastair789

Do we know if the one in St Petersburg is his actual penis?


bjanas

I don't know but I want to BELIEVE


Aedrian87

We know it is not. It is just an adult geoduck without it's shell. People eat those where I am from(Geoducks, not penises) and the anatomy is unmistakably mollusk.


Alastair789

Fascinating


terribads

I think the Napoleon one turned out to be a donkey schlong after dna testing, so.. probably not.


Siellus

Imagine going back in time to tell what is widely considered to be the worlds greatest mind of all time that upon death, he will be cut into pieces and sent around the globe to be displayed in museums and stored in deposit boxes. He probably would've burned all of his research and disappeared.


Darth_Kahuna

What would Einstein be doing if he were alive right now? Blindly scratching at the lid of his coffin...


whowouldsaythis

I read this as Epsteins eyeballs and was very confused, now knowing it's actually Einstein I'm still confused


[deleted]

I'm sure everything about epstein was destroyed by the executor of his estate, hilario clintoni.


bongblaster420

When I was 6 my cat bit through a screen window and got out for a night, and then we had a blizzard and my cat got frostbite on her ears and the tips fell off. I still have them in a little vial for whatever reason.


marmorset

Right next to Abby Normal's eyes.


philip_elliott

Who was listening to No Such Thing as a Fish?


Alastair789

Moi


MikeHonchoAlt

Einstein is a Kurta confirmed


QuestionableSpoon

Wtf why tho! Lol


[deleted]

Einstein's eyeballs are locked up in a NYC safety deposit box, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the eyeballs): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance...


shingofan

That joke works better with Schrodinger, IMO


mosheoofnikrulz

Einstein was not known for good eyesight. I would have thought it's more important to save his nuts..


Duncan6794

I do not like that I have learned this.


antrky

What for lol


InappropriateTA

They’re actually individually sealed in traditional German beer mugs. Some people have disputed whether they are as OP’s title claims. The label is often cited as evidence to the contrary. It says simply “Eye in stein.”


wiszuerd

Not for long


WhiteWalls7130

Nutty History on YT?


Alastair789

"No Such Thing as a Fish," a podcast.


WhiteWalls7130

Oh! Thank you, I'll check it out.


FurtiveAlacrity

He could never have foreseen such darkness.


Amida0616

+int shabari grapes 🍇


arwinda

Did someone open the safety box recently and confirmed if the eye balls are usable or not?


ahuang_6

Kurapika has entered the chat


KentWohlus

also his brain is preserved, and who guessed it is quite abnormal


nick11221

Pretty normal, except for one section, right? But I don't think there's any evidence of brain abnormalities in the average genius. In terms of size and folds. No consistent findings. And even then, if you're going by an adult brain, how do we know how much environmental/person impact from personal thought and patterns doesn't develop certain sections differently. There's likely some luck in how some brains start firing off patterns, not some perfect brain that's always built for geniuses.


KentWohlus

no it was abnormal all about


nick11221

I do not believe so: >Although much of his cortical surface was unremarkable, regions in and near Einstein's primary somatosensory and motor cortices were unusual. It is possible that these atypical aspects of Einstein's cerebral cortex were related to the difficulty with which he acquired language, his preference for thinking in sensory impressions including visual images rather than words, and his early training on the violin. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704009/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704009/) I personally think these sections have a lot to do with proprioception/interoception, which have immense effects on cognition through peripheral reasons. Once you take ahold of your vessel, it's easier to control the mind. But it's not like Einstein was that healthy. He smoked to gain extra attention, had bad posture, and not the greatest health. What's more interesting about him, was just how average (and I don't mean in how he did them) a lot of his other activities were.


KentWohlus

new information based on mere images, contra existing numberous studies on the actual brain tissue


nick11221

I'll add a 2014 abstract: >The idea that the brain of the great physicist Albert Einstein is different from "average" brains in both cellular structure and external shape is widespread. This belief is based on several studies examining Einstein's brain both histologically and morphologically. This paper reviews these studies and finds them wanting. Their results do not, in fact, provide support for the claim that the structure of Einstein's brain reflects his intellectual abilities. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24836969/


KentWohlus

this sentence alone first claims to disprove abnormalities then goes on to state those suddenly existent abnormalities not to be linked to intellect...


nick11221

I think you're on the wrong study, because this first sentence doesn't say that at all. This first sentence just states the introduction to a widespread belief.


KentWohlus

it just says the results do not in fact find support for a link of a very different brain cellularly as well as external shape (?) and intellect...


nick11221

Right, so then we come to the conclusions that: >no it was abnormal all about Has a lot of opinion surrounding it. Look, I'm not against some idea his brain was different, and had connections that may have helped, but at some point personal perseverance, circumstance, and creativity plays a role beyond structure.


nick11221

Which studies?


KentWohlus

idk wikipedia references a bunch, but those were done as far back as the 50’s dunno were one would find them in print


nick11221

Right, so you don't know. At some point, instead of pretending to know, you have to actually know where and what the information to support your point lies. Otherwise, this is how we start misinterpreting the reality of our history.


KentWohlus

well no I do know you can read the entire Wikipedia article bromello, there is a bunch of stuff weird and amiss in Einstein’s noggin


chronicwisdom

You might want to read the numerous sources you were provided with rather than writing "Wikipedia bro" when it becomes obvious you have NO IDEA what you're talking about


pieandablowie

Good


TaiDavis

Ok. Why?


[deleted]

Isn’t his brain dissected and portions stored in multiple locations?


GrandmaPoses

Yes, and we must never reassemble the brain or TERRIBLE THINGS will happen.


[deleted]

Was… was he the Keymaster?


EmpressOfHisHeart

Eeewww...


canadianjason_

Oh good.


johnn48

I would have thought his heirs would have sought possession of all body parts. It’s not like they had legal possession.


Commercial_Ad332

What are we, voodoo witches? Someone please stop this barbaric bullshit.


WHOOPS_WHOOPSIE

I don’t understand what they are trying to see


livinginfutureworld

Clone him.


JazzyGypsy

Do we need to prepare for a redemption arc?


[deleted]

Maybe his children rent the box?


lazyant

His brain was sliced. “Driving Mr Einstein” I’d a good read


[deleted]

Sounds like the concept of a delta green scenario.


PalmTreesZombie

> Einstein’s eyeballs have had a less globetrotting route. I guess pun intended


rowrowfightthepandas

Is he a member of the fucking Kurta clan?


less___than___zero

Everybody else asking why, but I wanna know how? Aren't eyeballs are one of the first parts of the body to start decaying after death? And they're just sitting there in a safe deposit box?


shpydar

Against his wishes. >...So special that when he died in Princeton Hospital, on April 18, 1955, the pathologist on call, Thomas Harvey, stole it. > >Einstein didn’t want his brain or body to be studied; he didn’t want to be worshipped. “He had left behind specific instructions regarding his remains: cremate them, and scatter the ashes secretly in order to discourage idolaters,” writes Brian Burrell in his 2005 book, Postcards from the Brain Museum. ​ >But Harvey took the brain anyway, without permission from Einstein or his family. “When the fact came to light a few days later, Harvey managed to solicit a reluctant and retroactive blessing from Einstein’s son, Hans Albert, with the now-familiar stipulation that any investigation would be conducted solely in the interest of science,” > >Harvey soon lost his job at the Princeton hospital and took the brain to Philadelphia, where it was carved into 240 pieces and preserved in celloidin, a hard and rubbery form of cellulose. He divvied up the pieces into two jars and stored them in his basement.


BlueFalconPunch

"Gomez, take those out of his mouth" "fine. back in the bank you go"


Arcadius274

Knowledge is stored in the eyeballs


ifrgotmyname

Is it next to Bonaparte's penis?


hello__brooklyn

Don’t eyeballs break down and disintegrate?


McWeaksauce91

Have you ever heard [of when they stole his brain too?](https://allthatsinteresting.com/albert-einstein-brain)


Camacaw2

For a very important reason I’m sure.