Winston Churchill's Blood Being Auctioned

Winston Churchill fractured a hip at age 87 and stayed in a London hospital, leaving behind a vial of his own blood. Now it's resurfaced for auction and could fetch hundreds of dollars, the Guardian reports. "It is impossible to put an accurate estimate on this unique piece of history," says a rep for Duke's auction house. "It is probably the first time that such a personal piece of Churchill’s history has been offered on the open market." When Churchill left the hospital in 1962, student nurse Patricia Fitzgibbon kept the tube; now she's died, freeing the item up for the highest bidder. Churchill lived on for another three years after his hospital stay, but the operation to fix the fracture shortened one leg and he used a walking stick from then on, the Duke's rep tells Kent News. (More Winston Churchill stories.)