FACTS ABOUT YOUR FARTS

Farting is the act of passing intestinal gases through the anus.  These can sometimes be odorless and sometimes deathly.  But do you know why you pass gas?  Do you know why your farts are sometimes loud as a blow of horn or as quiet as a mouse?  The facts below will tell you a thing or two about something everyone does multiple of times a day.

Y    Flatulence is the production of a mixture of air and gases in the digestive tract that are by-products of the digestion process.  Average flatulence composition: 59% nitrogen; 21% hydrogen; 9 % carbon dioxide; 7 % methane; 3 % oxygen; 1 % other crap..

Y    Top 10 Farters: 1. Termites; 2. Camels; 3. Zebras; 4. sheep; 5.cows; 6. elephants; 7. Labradors/retrievers; 8. humans (vegetarians); 9. Humans (non-vegetarians); 10. Gerbis..

Y    Termites produce more methane than cows and even all man-made polluting machinery (but don’t release any other harmful chemicals)

Y    The average person will fart 14 times a day and produce half a liter of fart gas per day.

Y    Farts are indeed flammable.

Y    Farts can come blazing out of your ass at 7 mph, and are 98.6°F at the time of creation. 

Y    You cannot suffocate in a chamber full of your own fart.

Y    Hydrogen sulfide is the compound in farts that make them stink.

Y    Stealthy Flatulence: Most farts come from swallowed air (largely nitrogen and Carbon dioxide) and are relatively odorless.  The bubbles from these farts are large and can produce large sounds.  Bacterial fermentation and digestion processes can produce various pungent gases in other farts.  The bubbles from these farts tend to be small and smelly and do not produce much sound. (silent but deadly!)

Y    The person can still fart after death.

Y    The nerve endings in your rectal area help distinguish the difference between farts and poop but sometimes these nerves can get confused when your poop is more fluid than usual and results in things such as mud butt and sharting.

Y    Beans do, in fact, make you fart more.  The human body cannot digest certain polysaccharides.  As these carbohydrate structures reach the lower intestine, bacteria feed in them, producing a lot of flatus.

Y    Farty Foods:  beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage, milk, bread, eggs, beer, raisins, brussel sprouts, lentils onions, garlic, leeks, oats, yeast, radishes, sweet potatoes, cashews, turnips, rutabagas…