18 Famous People Who Are Missing Body Parts - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep.202)

Hi, I'm Josh Sundquist from this channel hopping in for John this week to host Mental

Floss on YouTube. Did you know that actor Robert David Hall, famous as CSI lead Dr. Albert Robbins, is

missing both of his legs due to a car accident? Interestingly, he's only 5 feet 8 inches tall

And you have to respect his restraint, because if I had two fake legs, which means you can

basically choose to be any height you want, I would make myself at least a foot taller

And that's the first of many famous people who are missing body parts that I'm going

to tell you about today in honor of April being amputee awareness month

I'm going to broadly define amputee in this video to include not only limbs but also appendages

fingers and ears, mostly because I want to mention that painter Vincent Van Gogh cut

off his own ear. He then wrapped it up and gave it to a prostitute. If only the doctor

could have changed his timeline Adventurer Aaron Ralston cut his own arm off with a dull pocket knife after being trapped for 127 hours under a rock Fortunately for Hollywood he looks exactly like James Franco

and he happened to have a video camera with him. Speaking of traumatic amputation stories that have been made into inspirational movies

soul surfer Bethany Hamilton returned to competitive surfing after losing her arm in a shark attack

That's probably copyrighted music. Due to an unfortunate accident involving a roast beef slicer at Arby's

former White House Chief of Staff and current Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, is missing his right middle finger

Speaking of people who were unable to give the bird, legendary outlaw Jesse James lost his middle finger while cleaning his gun

After his death, his body was positively identified by that missing finger

Also missing part of his finger, in this case due to an unfortunate door slamming incident

actor Matthew Perry. Now you have an excuse to watch that rerun of Friends for the 10th

time. You're welcome. Ted Kennedy Jr., son of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, had his leg amputated due to childhood

cancer. Actor Eric Stolhansky, best known for playing rabbit in the movie Super Troopers

was born without his right leg from the knee down He also played Todd in Beer Fest which kind of makes you wonder if Das Boot was actually just his prosthesis filled up with beer

Turns out there's a lot of amputee musicians, including jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, who

lost both legs below the knee to diabetes, and Rick Allen, the drummer for Def Leppard

who lost an arm in a car accident. The lead guitarists of both Black Sabbath and The Grateful Dead were missing fingers

Respectively, they were Tony Iommi, who lost two fingers in an industrial accident, and Jerry Garcia, whose brother chopped off his finger with an axe

But that didn't stop him from inventing a delicious Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor

Although she wasn't a musician, she married one. I'm talking about supermodel Heather Mills, who lost her leg in a collision with a London police officer on a motorcycle

Confederate General Jonathan Stonewall Jackson got his nickname for standing stoically like a stone wall in the face of battle

But he ended up losing a part of that wall, specifically an arm, after he was shot by friendly fire

Actor James Doohan lost a finger at D before portraying Montgomery Scotty Scott on Star Trek Hey look these guys were on Star Trek too And finally we return to the salon and not a moment too soon my hands are getting very cold Ah so much better To tell you about Galileo He lost three of his fingers after

his death. After which time, they changed hands, no pun intended, for several centuries before

two of them disappeared for over 100 years. But in 2009, they were discovered in a jar

and they now orbit the sun together from a museum in Italy

faster than toenails, but nobody knows why. Here's what we do know. Your fingernails

will grow fastest in your teens and 20s, and they also grow faster in the summer

Thanks for asking that mind-blowing question, and leave more mind-blowing questions in the comments below. Once again, I'm Josh Sundquist, and as they say

in John's hometown, don't forget to be awesome