Digestion Facts

Although they won't admit it, women fart as much as men.

On average, a person produces about 1 to 1.5 liters of fart gas per day, distributed over an average of about 14 daily farts.

Farts are created mostly by intestinal bacteria fermenting undigested food in your colon.

Excess gas in the intestinal is medically termed "flatulence."

Sloths take up to 30 days to fully digest a single meal.

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every few days to protect itself from being digested by its own acid.

Pepsi was named after pepsin, the digestive enzyme. Creator Caleb Bradham believed his 1898 drink aided digestion, though it actually contained papain from papaya rather than true pepsin.

Ants have two stomachs - one holds food for themselves, and the other is a 'social stomach' used to share food with other ants through regurgitation.

It takes 24 to 72 hours for food to completely pass through your digestive system, with most of that time spent in the large intestine.

For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier.

If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.

A bird 'chews' with its stomach.

The average person farts 8-14 times per day, and despite popular belief, studies show men and women pass gas at roughly the same rate.

If you hold farts in during the day, they'll just come out when you sleep.

Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.

Fruit stickers are FDA-approved to be made from edible materials, including food-grade paper and adhesive. While not intended for consumption, they're designed to pass through your digestive system harmlessly if accidentally swallowed.

15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.