The New Joke Thread

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Originally Posted by south4320

And don't forget the Tasmanians are called twinheads. Supposedly from all the inbreeding.

Wasn't trying to fact-check you, but was am interested in etymology etc, and found this on the matter -

The joke about the second appendage is most likely to have come from the widespread cases of goitre in Tasmania throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Goitre is the swelling of the neck due to the enlargement of the thyroid gland.

And what causes an enlargement of the thyroid gland? An iodine deficiency.

Paul AC Richards is a retired professor of nuclear medicine, and worked with patients with thyroid conditions throughout his career.

"Tasmania is mildly iodine deficient, and during the 19th and 20th centuries in particular, there was a tremendous amount of goitre in Tasmania," Professor Richards said.

"Sometimes these goitres were very, very large, and so the joke went around that it was protruding like a second head."



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-...ond%20head.%22

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