The Most Bizarre Medical Tools from Back in the Day

A Medical Steed

In a weird twist, this creepy little horse was used to keep kids calm while they were getting x-rays.

There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
Only ¼ of the Sahara Desert is sandy.
Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker.