Some Obscurish facts
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Toward the end of the 1800s, Joseph Pujol, also known as Le Petomane—or the manic farter—became famous by playing a rather unconventional wind instrument. This he did while impeccably attired in a tuxedo, white stockings, and gloves, hardly projecting the appearance of someone who would then put out a candle a foot away, smoke a cigarette with a pipe attached to his rear, or imitate a dressmaker tearing calico. He became so popular with this unconventional performance that he once gave a private showing for the Prince of Wales. When he died in 1945, at eighty-eight, the Sorbonne, in Paris, even offered his family $10,000 to examine his body. Since the family knew what part of his body they wanted to examine, they turned them down.
Toward the end of the 1800s, Joseph Pujol, also known as Le Petomane—or the manic farter—became famous by playing a rather unconventional wind instrument. This he did while impeccably attired in a tuxedo, white stockings, and gloves, hardly projecting the appearance of someone who would then put out a candle a foot away, smoke a cigarette with a pipe attached to his rear, or imitate a dressmaker tearing calico. He became so popular with this unconventional performance that he once gave a private showing for the Prince of Wales. When he died in 1945, at eighty-eight, the Sorbonne, in Paris, even offered his family $10,000 to examine his body. Since the family knew what part of his body they wanted to examine, they turned them down.