On the walls of Cologne City Hall, hidden under a larger statue of Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, is a carving showing a man giving oral sex to himself. It dates to around 1410 and no one really knows why it’s there.
a sheela na gig, a medieval carving of a woman displaying an exaggerated vagina, often used to decorate cathedrals and castles in western and central europe
Adam Rainer, an Austrian native, entered the world in 1899, carving a distinctive niche in medical records as the sole person to have experienced both dwarfism and giantism. From his birth until reaching adulthood, Rainer's stature remained notably shorter than that of an average…