No but really, why do we all burp and fart so much?

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What makes humans so damn gassy? In a recent installment of SciShow, Hank Green explores the science behind our bodies' various "gaseous emissions."

Complement with:

Why does coffee make you poop?
When people explode during colonoscopies
Why can farts be set alight?

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Guild_Navigator

1/11/14 6:39PM

Western culture wasnt the only one that looked for the funny side of our intestinal gas dance,as proven by these 17th century scrolls known as He-Gassen ("The Fart War") that are basically one big Adam Sandler/Medea crossover set in feudal Japan: