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the body's most honest review, delivered loudly and never asked for.
means The presence of excess gas in the digestive tract, typically expelled audibly or otherwise from the rear.
from From Latin 'flatus' — a blowing or breaking wind — itself from 'flare,' to blow. The same root puffs through 'inflate,' 'deflate,' and 'flatus' itself; English picked up 'flatulence' via French in the 17th century, dressing a very old bodily fact in suitably learned Latin clothing.
- travel speed
- exits at roughly 10 feet per second
- daily output
- average person passes gas 14 to 23 times
- the smell
- sulfur compounds cause it, not the volume
- flammable truth
- methane and hydrogen make it genuinely ignitable
- royal record
- Roman emperor Claudius nearly legalized banquet farting
bernard clemmens fart record — held world record for longest fart at 2 minutes 42 seconds in 1972
flatulence in space — astronauts experience increased flatulence due to microgravity affecting digestion on iss
beans causing flatulence study — usda research documented that beans produce 0.5-1 liter of gas per serving due to oligosaccharides