Interesting Celery Fact No. 101

In 1957 George Ffortescue-Smyth, a patient at a high security psychiatric hospital in Minnesota, used 76,328 sticks of celery to fashion a fully functioning battering ram. He formed the ram over several years by secretly smuggling both his own celery portion and that of fellow patients back to his cell and hiding the ram in sections under his bed. His escape attempt was thwarted, however, when as a result of electroshock therapy, he suffered paranoid delusions and began to consume the battering ram, believing himself to be an extremely hungry King Kong. Ffortescue-Smyth managed to eat almost 50% of the battering ram before staff found him near death, due to it's negative calorific value (see Interesting Celery Fact No. 12 - Celery and the Origins of Life on Earth).