What began as a bit of a practical joke might just have been the thing to save one man's life.
According to an article on Gawker, for a laugh the guy in question peed on a pregnancy test left behind by an ex-girlfriend. To his utter shock, the test came up positive. Then one coincidence led to another. A friend transformed the vignette into a humorous comic on Reddit...
Many commenters then weighed in, telling the man to get himself to an oncologist, pronto, as beta human chorionic gonadotropin, detected by a pregnancy test, can signal not just a baby on the way but possible testicular cancer, too.
"If this is true, you should check yourself for testicular cancer. Seriously. Google it," wrote one commenter.
And they were right. The man discovered he had a small tumour in his right testicle (which, you guessed it, also made its way into comic form on Reddit). If it weren't for that cheeky test, he may not have caught the cancer in time.
The power of the net prevails—again!
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