this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
127 points (95.7% liked)
And Finally...
1098 readers
414 users here now
A place for odd or quirky world news stories.
Elsewhere in the Fediverse:
- !weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
- !offbeat@lemmy.ca
- !nottheonion@lemmy.world
- !nottheonion@lemmy.ml
- !nottheonion@zerobytes.monster
- !aiop@lemmy.world
- !jingszo@lemmy.world
- !forteana@feddit.uk
- !strangetimes@lemmy.world
- !goodnews@feddit.uk
- !upliftingnews@lemmy.world
Rules:
- Be excellent to each other
- The Internet will resurface old "And finally..." material. Just mark it [VINTAGE]
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
triphallia, was only seen in a human for the very first time in 2020 in a newborn, and is thought to affect one in every 5 to 6 million live births.
diphallia, has been seen in around 100 human cases, and occurs once in every 5.5 million live births.
so these two conditions, one of which is supposed to be more rare, occur with the same frequency?
Yeah, I would guess the combination of mutations necessary to cause either are similarly as likely. But 3 penises hide better due to the location they would grow. 2 penises would generally be side by side, but for 3, the center one is where you would expect, but the extra two are inside the scrotum.
Not much reason to look inside anyones scrotum for extra penises, alive or dead. So there could be a thousand people alive with 3, and none of them will ever know. And even dead, the odds are pretty low anyone will have reason to look.