A recent study has found that people in Lapland don't feel pain. It started when an orthopaedist working in Sápmi witnessed locals laughing off traumatic injuries. He saw a young boy fall two stories without whining. Then he saw a girl fall off a wall and just get up and brush herself off, even though her arm was sliced up like bacon.
A subsequent study identified a condition called 'Hereditary Lapland Pain-Insensitivity'. It is caused by a genetic mutation that fucks up the nerve endings and is often seen in communities were inbreeding is common. We called up a guy we know who’s always getting in the most brutal bar fights and asked him what he knew about it...
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