For decades, the appendix was dismissed as a useless organ. Doctors removed it without hesitation, believing it served no real purpose in the human body. But groundbreaking research out of Duke University is now revealing a very different truth. The appendix is far from
Victor Noir's grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery by Patrick Magaud, 1984.
This sculpture became a symbol of fertility: it is said that those who kiss it, leave a flower in the cap, and rub it against the genital area will have greater fertility.