10 Surprising Things That Are Made From Human Body Parts

5. Lampshade

A few months after a hurricane, Raymond Henderson was looking at a flood-damaged drum set at a yard sale. The merchant claimed to have a lamp with a 10-inch long lampshade fashioned from “Jewish skin”.

Henderson bought the lampshade for $35 and brought it home to check it carefully, despite his initial skepticism. It turned out to be real human skin. On the dry “material”, he could clearly see the wrinkles and pores. He took it to a lab, where it was determined to actually be “Jewish skin”.

4. Bricks

In 2018, a group of scientists from South Africa stated that they found a formula that gives them the ability to create bricks from human urine. In order to create these bricks, they used several things, such as urine, sand, bacteria, and calcium.