Anatomical Anomalies
When I was in college I was required to complete a 14-week intensive gross anatomy class with the first-year medical students. We were divided into small groups of five or so people and assigned a cadaver to dissect and study.
Most of the cadavers were, for obvious reasons, the bodies of very old and frail people. This made studying them a challenge because many of their veins and muscles had atrophied to such small sizes that they were difficult to locate and identify.
Our group was fortunate. The cadaver we were assigned was the body of a powerfully built man in his late 60's to early 70's. 6'4" tall with a white handlebar moustache and a tough, weathered face. Although we showed respect to all of the cadavers, this gentleman commanded a special reverence among everyone who saw him - even the doctors who were instructing the class.
On a somewhat less reverent note - although I think it pertinent to the story: I'm sure that if his spirit were looking down on us during that 14 weeks he would have been proud to learn from the female med students that he had the largest dong any of them had ever seen. I was grateful to the first person who breached the subject because, up to that point, the collective silence about the matter made me wonder if I were the only one to think it exceptional. If I were the only one to think so, I concluded, then my frame of reference for what was average must be somewhat skewed...
The reason I started this thread was to document one memory in particular I had about him: He had three kidneys. Two normal kidneys on each side and, floating above the left "normal" kidney was a third one. It was only three inches long, complete with arterial and venous blood vessels and a small ureter that ran to the bladder.