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In 2011, it was discovered by police that the 26 life-sized "dolls" that Russian academic Anatoly Moskvin kept in his apartment each contained a child's corpse. He had dug them up, planning to resurrect them through magic, and built the dolls to give them a body for their resurrection.

Mannequin and manikin are different. The term "mannequin" is primarily used to describe a life-sized doll that models clothing, while "manikins" are anatomical models of the human body generally used by medical or art students.

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1. Learned that in the 1790s, the Guillotine was so popular, they made child sized one for kids to behead their dolls and rodents, and the wealthy had tiny ones on their dining table, for slicing bread.

2. An artist in a small village in Japan have been creating life-sized dolls in place of deceased residents for the last 10 years. Today, the number of life-sized dolls outnumbers the village residents 10-to-1.

3. Life-sized dolls outnumber people in the village of Nagoro, Japan.

4. There is a village in Japan called Nagoro, filled with life sized dolls that outnumber its living residents

5. Arthur Conan Doyle created a postage-stamp-sized book containing a special 503-word Sherlock Holmes story for inclusion in a doll's house for Queen Mary.

6. About Walter Potter, a Victorian taxidermist who preserved animals in surreal scenes including bunny rabbits in a doll-sized school house. His museum operated for over 150 years until it was closed in the 1970's.

7. In a first-of-its-kind case, a Newfoundland man who ordered a child-sized sex doll from Japan to replace his deceased infant son was charged with possessing child pornography, mailing obscene matter, and two charges under the federal Customs Act of smuggling and possession of prohibited goods.

8. There's a village in Japan where life-size dolls outnumber the living residents

9. There's a village in Japan where residents are being replaced by life-size straw dolls

10. An artist creates life-sized dolls to replace deceased residents from small Japanese village

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Influential philosopher René Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women. He also often traveled with a mechanical life sized female companion/sex doll called Francine.

In order to achieve the same figure as a Barbie Doll, the average American Woman needs to increase bust size by 12 inches, reduce waist by 10 and grow to over 7 feet in height. - source

Pocket cooking was a thing in Japan. Miniature sized meals being prepared on doll-sized, functional stoves. I must say it is quite mesmerizing. - source