


| Some
seriously gross facts |
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Every year, parks in London alone are doused
in one million gallons of dog urine.
The germs present in human faeces can pass through
up to ten layers of toilet paper.
The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting
is 27 feet.
Contrary to popular belief, if you swallow chewing
gum it does not stay in the gut. Usually it will pass through the system and be excreted
without incident. However, several cases have been reported where the gum has stuck in the
rectum, causing the unfortunate sufferer to excrete long sticky trails of gum, like a pink
spider's web.
Several well documented instances have been reported
of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. The
vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.
It is possible to cough your guts up.
If your body's natural defenses failed, the bacteria
in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out.
What is one of the most difficult items for sewage
works to handle, as it is insoluble, yet fine enough to pass through most filtration
systems? (Every month Thames Water removes over a ton of this substance from its
water treatment plants, whereupon it is taken away to a landfill site and buried). You
guessed it - pubic hair.
Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.
Henry II was murdered by by his homosexual lover,
who pushed a red hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum.
The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human
body was 33 *metres* in length.
-------------------- and THE most gross of all ...
A woman who had recently visited South America,
where she had safaried in local rainforest, began to experience severe pains in her left
ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first put down
to tinnitis. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed
that a spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her
eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider
crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed... |