Michel Lotito made a career out of a medical oddity. He ate bicycles, televisions, shopping trolleys and a light aircraft, cut into small pieces and washed down with water. Doctors believed a rare condition called pica made him crave such things. He was a showman rather than a scientist. Still, his strange digestion fascinated doctors and record books. Guinness World Records gave him a brass plaque for eating the aeroplane. He reportedly ate that too. He lived until the age of 57.
Key Milestones
1966: Begins performing by eating objects
1978: Starts eating a Cessna 150
1980: Finishes eating the plane
2007: Dies in France
Michel Lotito (French pronunciation:; 16 June 1950 – 25 June 2007) was a French entertainer famous for deliberate consumption of normally indigestible objects. He came to be known as Monsieur Mangetout (lit. 'Mister Eats-All').
