Flatulence

Some interesting facts about farting which cropped up the other day when I was doing some research - of all things on convulsant poisons ( strictly for educational purposes I hasten to add)

The planet's top ten farters

1 Termites
2 Camels
3 Zebras
4 Sheep
5 Cows
6 Elephants
7 Labradors/Retrievers
8 Humans (vegitarians)
9 Humans (Omnivores)
10 Gerbils

The average person will fart 14 times a day, a total of around half a litre of gas being expelled at an average speed of 7 miles per hour at 37 degres celsius and the majority of which will be a Nitrogen/Carbon Dioxide mixture that will have been gulped down through an open mouth rather than the digestive by product we all assume a fart might be. Nitrogen/Carbon Dioxide farts are made up of large gaseous bubbles and can be consequently more audible than the smaller bubbled digestive fermentation farts which tend to be smelly and less audible (the silent but deadly origins perhaps?)

The rectum is so nerve rich that it knows when you are going to fart or poop and triggers a different anal reaction for each event although when ill the nerves can be confused and a follow through can result.

Beans do, infact, make you fart more because they contain polysaccharides and these indigestible carbohydrate structures, when they reach the lower intestine, create a nutrient rich soup for the bacteria there to feast upon and produce gas as a by product of their gluttony.

No-one has ever been known to have been harmed by being exposed to a fart, personally expelled or merely through the kindness of another!

Fascinating - and I was looking up Wolfsbane when I came across it!