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The average human releases about a quart of gas every day, which is enough to blow up a birthday balloon. Nearly all animals experience some form of flatulence. Come along with Tidbits as we apologize for farting!

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FART FACTS (continued):

• When gut bacteria breaks down foods that are naturally high in sulfates, such as eggs, broccoli, cauliflower, almonds, and Brussels sprouts, they give off waste products that are much higher in sulfurous chemicals, leading to smellier flatulence. A sulfur compound called mercaptan found in meats and dairy products can also be to blame.

• Beans cause gas because they contain large amounts of oligosaccharides, a type of plant-based sugar. Most animals have an enzyme called alphagalactosidase that breaks down these sugars, but humans lack that enzyme. Experts claim that the more often you eat beans, the less they will make you fart, as the microflora in your gut adjusts.

• The anti-gas product Beano, which claims to prevent bean-related gas before it occurs, actually works. The pills contain the missing alphagalactosidase enzyme which cuts complex carbohydrates into shorter, simpler carbs that are much easier to digest. As a result, they get broken down in the small intestine rather than making it all the way to the large intestine, where bacteria would ferment them, producing gas.

• Botanist Colin Leakey, son of anthropologist Louis Leakey, developed a fart-free bean. In 1979, he was in Chile. As he walked through an open air market, he noticed that some beans were more expensive than others. These were called the “rich man’s bean.” When he asked why, the women in the stalls claimed they were fart-free beans. Leaky began studying them, cross-breeding the ones that caused the least stink, and came up with a hybrid he called the “prim bean.”

• The knee-jerk reaction for some people is to stop eating things that produce gas, but these foods made of complex carbohydrates are nutritious not only for humans but also for the bacteria in the gut. It’s not a good idea to starve those bacteria. ...continued

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• Some gas is caused by swallowed air, coming from fizzy drinks as well as things like airy whipped topping. Most swallowed air comes up as burps, but some goes through as farts. Flatulance resulting from swallowed air has very little odor.

• The same bacteria that produce gas also generate vitamins and fatty acids that help maintain our colon lining, as well as supporting the immune system.

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• Fart jokes appear in the works of Shakespeare and in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” Farts are mentioned in the Bible (Isaiah 26:17-18), and are featured in several stories of “The Arabian Nights.”

Dante wrote about farting in “The Inferno” and Jonathan Swift penned an essay called “The Benefit of Farting Explained.” In response to a call for scientific papers, Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay called “Fart Proudly” in which he facetiously suggested that researchers study a way to make farts smell better.

FART WORDS

• The word “fart” had been in common use for centuries, yet Webster’s left it out of the dictionary until 1961. On the other hand, Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language,” published in 1755, included it.

• “Flatulence” comes from the Latin verb “flare” meaning “to blow,” and its corresponding noun “flatus” meaning “a blowing.” The word “poop” originated with the Middle English “powpe” meaning “to blow a horn” and originally referred to a fart, morphing into “poot” which became “toot.”

• In slang it’s called “cutting the cheese” because when cheese was originally sold in large round molds, the first slice the cut through the waxy protective rind, released the sharp odor of fermentation. ...continued

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• In the year 569 B.C., King Apries of Egypt sent General Amasis to squash a rebellion. The rebels crowned General Amasis as their new king, and he was OK with that. When King Apries got wind of it, he sent one of his most respected advisors to bring General Amasis before him. When the advisor encountered Amasis, the general was seated upon a horse. He raised his butt off the saddle, farted loudly, and told the advisor to take that message back to King Apries. When the advisor delivered the message, King Apries was so angry that he commanded his henchmen to cut off the nose and ears of the advisor. Because the advisor had been a very popular person, the citizens of Egypt were enraged. Many defected and joined forces with General Amasis. Because of this, Amasis defeated King Apries in battle. Amasis was declared Egypt’s new king, and ruled for 44 peaceful and prosperous years.

• In the 1600s, Edward DeVere, 17th Earl of Oxford, bowed down before Queen Elizabeth, and accidentally let out a fart. He was so embarrassed that he left England for 7 years. When he returned, the Queen greeted him saying, “My lord, I had forgot the fart!”

• Comedienne Caryn Johnson admits that she got the first part of her stage name due to the fact that stomach ulcers caused her to pass a lot of gas, making her sound like a walking whoopee cushion. She’s now known as Whoopi Goldberg.

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• For centuries, doctors thought that medicines made with human flesh, blood or bone could be effective in curing all kinds of ailments, from epilepsy to headaches. The practice was called "corpse medicine."

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• During the War of 1812, the U.S. frigate Chesapeake was up against the British ship Shannon when the Chesapeake’s captain, James Lawrence, was fatally • During the Revolutionary War, the American ship Le wounded. His dying words were, “Don't give up the Bonhomme Richard was engaged in battle with the ship!”

British ship Serapis. The Richard took a beating and was in danger of sinking. The captain of the Richard • General John Morgan was talking with General Naordered his crew to close in on the Serapis, then lashed than Bedford Forrest about their exploits in the Civil the two ships together. The captain of the Serapis, seeWar when Morgan asked Forrest how he had maning the Richard begin to sink, asked for a surrender, but aged to capture the garrison at Murfreesboro. Forrest Captain John Paul Jones said no, calling out, “I have simply replied, “I just took the short cut and got there not yet begun to fight!” The two ships mauled each first with the most men.” This statement remembered other till the Serapis finally surrendered. The Richard as, “I got there firstest with the mostest.” sank, but John Paul Jones sailed the Serapis home as a • In 1813 during the Battle of Lake Erie, naval comprize. mander Oliver Hazard was commanding the flagship • Admiral David Farragut was leading the Union attack Lawrence when it was so badly damaged that he had against the Confederates in the ship Tecumseh. The bay to row to a new ship to continue the battle. Neverwas mined, forcing ships to pass close to the Confedertheless, he won the battle and sent a terse dispatch ate fort. The Tecumseh was sunk by a mine, so Farraannouncing the victory, saying, “We have met the engut moved to the Hartford to continue the attack. The emy, and they are ours.” Years later Walt Kelly's carfleet was in disarray and the tide was sweeping them toon character Pogo parodied this, saying, “We have closer to the guns on shore. The Confederate ship Tenmet the enemy and he is us.” nessee was closing in. Farragut called out, “Damn the torpedoes, go ahead!” The ships pressed on through • Just north of the equator, the earth is circled by a band of wind that moves nearly constantly. Just south of the the minefield without further damage. Soon both the equator, another band of wind moves constantly, but fort and the Tennessee had fallen. Farragut’s speech is it moves in the opposite direction. However, there’s a now remembered as, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed belt around the equator where the two winds moving ahead!” in opposite directions cancel each other out, leaving • Chaplain Howell Forgy was aboard the cruiser New large swaths of the ocean without a single breath of Orleans in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. moving air for long periods of time. The word for this The man who had the keys to the ammunition room stagnant area came from the same root word that gave had gone ashore before the attack, so the crewmen were us dull and dolt. Later the term also came to mean forced to break down the door, only to find that the auanybody who acted sluggish, slow, or lazy. From tomatic ammunition hoist was out of order. So the men there it also came to mean listless, a depressed mood, formed a human chain to get the ammo on deck. Seeor suffering from low spirits. When you’re down in ing the men tire after passing many heavy loads, Forgy the dumps, you’re also in the “doldrums.” called out, “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!”

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• On April 21, 1980, Rosie Ruiz, age 26, finishes first in the women's division of the Boston Marathon.

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• A buccaneer was a pirate who operated in the Caribbean. In the 1600s various misfits such as runaway slaves, criminals hiding out, and sailors who had deserted their ships began roaming around the island that is now Haiti. They hunted wild pigs and cattle, drying the meat to preserve it. The drying racks they used were called “boucans” and this group of rag-tag men subsequently became known as buccaneers. They traded their dried meat for goods carried by ships that were heading back to Europe. The Spanish had claimed the island as their territory so the presence of these buccaneers was unwanted. To drive them off, the Spaniards not only murdered them whenever possible, but also slaughtered their cattle and pigs. Angry, the buccaneers organized a resistance and drove the Spaniards off. Not satisfied with that, the buccaneers then took their revenge to the sea, raiding every Spanish ship they could capture. Finding this profitable, they often attacked ships from other countries as well. The heyday of buccaneers in the Caribbean waned by the end of the 1600s as the Spanish presence in the Caribbean began to fall off.

• A privateer was essentially a pirate whose plundering was sanctioned and often underwritten by the government that the pirate worked for. Captains of privately owned boats carried documents known as Letters of Marque which officially authorized them to attack and plunder ships belonging to whatever country their homeland was warring with at the time. (“Marque” came from the German word “march” meaning border; the Letters of Marque gave the captains permission to cross international boundaries.) Generally the sponsoring government received a share of the privateer's loot. ...continued

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• Privateering reached its zenith between 1589 and 1815, when privateers acted as auxiliary members of the navy. When a particular war ended, the Letters of Marque issued for that war expired and the privateers found themselves out of work. Reluctant to give up their way of life, many of them became pirates instead and attacked whatever ships they ran across. During the War of 1812, privateers disregarded the rules laid down by their Letters of Marque and began attacking whatever ships they found. Because of these abuses, the Declaration of Paris, signed in 1856 by France and England, abolished privateering. This declaration later became part of general international law.

• Then there were the regular pirates, who attacked not only other ships but also any likelylooking towns on shore. The cost of operating pirate ships was often underwritten by wealthy businessmen who invested in the venture hoping to make a profit.

• Captain Kidd was licensed by the British government to capture enemy merchant ships and bring the plunder home. But one ship he preyed on was owned by rich, influential men who had connections. They complained to King William III— the same man who had commissioned Kidd— and Kidd was tricked, trapped, and brought to trial. Evidence was withheld that would have saved him, and Kidd went to the gallows, undeserving of his reputation as an evil pirate.

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• Philosopher Diogenes was captured by pirates in order to be sold into slavery. The pirate captain wanted to know if he had any trade or skills.

Diogenes replied that all he knew was how to govern men. “Sell me to a man who needs a master!” he said. The pirate immediately put him to work as tutor to his two sons.

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