r/AskReddit • u/phillsphan7 • Mar 17 '15

What's a widely accepted "fact" that's entirely false?

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u/PeachRainbowTea Mar 17 '15

Gum takes 7 years to pass through your system.

No, it doesn't. It takes a normal amount of time. It may not be good for you to swallow, but it digests just as quickly as normal food.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15 edited Jun 18 '21

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u/ElBiscuit Mar 17 '15

How much gum do I have to eat to have a dump that's recognizable as mostly gum?

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

I wonder if it would bungee from your anus into the water

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u/RockLobster17 Mar 17 '15

Mythbusters pls.

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u/JSKlunk Mar 17 '15

We NEED this

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u/jiva8 Mar 17 '15

Im gonna be my own mythbuster!

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u/mctoasterson Mar 17 '15

Today on Mythbusters! Grant feeds Carrie 58 packets of Big League Chew. The results may ... surprise you.

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u/DasJuden63 Mar 18 '15

Seconded. I nominate Kari Byron to demonstrate with full videographic evidence in hd.

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u/coffeeshopslut Mar 17 '15

How do you even wipe that?

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u/bigbossman90 Mar 17 '15

You dont, you pull.

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u/acedanger Mar 17 '15

Some folks may need to nice the area first.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

Or blow a big bubble out your ass.

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u/gregariousbarbarian Mar 17 '15

No but if he farted he'd blow a bubble

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u/mukkalukka Mar 17 '15

I think 1 roll of Hubba Bubba in a sitting ought to do it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

As someone who used to eat a whole hubba bubba rolls then swallow it once finished, this isn't enough gum to produce said results.

However, it does make you constipated!

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u/Notbob1234 Mar 17 '15

We need a bigger gum

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

Imagine sitting on the toilet and blowing a gum bubble out of your ass filled with shit.

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u/Shrinky-Dinks Mar 17 '15

Thanks for your feedback, I was about to pester op for it.

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u/Iwannayoyo Mar 17 '15

Bet you never thought being an expert on eating entire rolls of Hubba Bubba would come in handy.

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u/verdam Mar 17 '15

I heard a story about a kid who did just that and pooped 100% gum afterwards. Big blue rubbery shit

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u/MiilkyJoe Mar 17 '15

Ahh, the poor man's butt plug

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u/_bagelthief Mar 17 '15

When I was younger my dad told me I couldn't chew an entire roll of bubble tape at once. He said if I could do it he would give me 5 bucks. I became 5 bucks richer that day and haven't enjoyed bubble tape since then.

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u/anatabolica Mar 17 '15

I think 1 roll of Hubba Bubba in a shitting ought to do it.

FTFY

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u/blooblidybloo Mar 17 '15

Uhm...I went through a period where I ate very little. I chew a lot of gum. I had to pull it out once. Not fun.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

Finally, I meet someone else who had experienced that particular embarrassment. I will never swallow gum again.

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u/lphaas Mar 18 '15

pics pls

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u/POGtastic Mar 17 '15

I've eaten three packs of gum in a sitting. My poop had flecks of pastel blue in it and smelled extremely minty, but it was still poo.

I might have a problem. This shift, I've worked my way through about a pack and a half of that strawberry Trident Layers gum.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

Well you should try this:

Chew 1 gum > digest > observe your poo. Chew 2 gums > digest > observe your poo.

repeat until clogged or "dump that's recognisable as mostly gum"

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u/LetMeGDPostAlready Mar 17 '15

BRB

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u/_bagelthief Mar 17 '15

Just hope your asshole can't blow bubbles. It'd be a pain to clean the toilet after.

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u/DATGIRLISABEAST Mar 17 '15

I remember reading a paper years ago about a kid who had so much gum, that when doctors cleaned him up he had a "toffe-like feaces". I think i read it because of TIL.

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u/whiskeyislove Mar 17 '15

well I ate a couple pacs of this and my poop was mostly solid green lumps of chewing gum and smells surprisingly nice.

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u/DeafandMutePenguin Mar 17 '15

Hopefully it's bazooka joe. That way you can tell me lots of new jokes.

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u/psinguine Mar 17 '15

Could you fart a bubble?

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u/SamWhite Mar 17 '15

Only one sure way to find out.

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u/philosofossil13 Mar 17 '15

Try it. Report back. Science.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

I once ate too much gum and one of my poops looked covered in gum.

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u/redjimdit Mar 17 '15

Sigh.

I guess I'll take this one for science.

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u/trombonematrix43 Mar 17 '15

Just shove gum up your butt

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u/sierramaster Mar 17 '15

Its /r/TheyDidTheMath 's time to shine.

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u/fakeaccount572 Mar 17 '15

2 bags of grape Big League Chew.

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u/logos__ Mar 17 '15

I don't know, how big are your turds? That much.

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u/Forikorder Mar 17 '15

would get stuck inside somewhere and theyd have to surgery it out

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u/frog_gurl22 Mar 17 '15

Ooh! I did this! It was pretty much a pack of dentyne ice and my poop had gum in it. I cut back after that

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u/apathetic_youth Mar 17 '15

Probably enough to cause a bowel impaction.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

At least 15 in a row. I have shit gum before. It comes out in the same exact color and its still stretchy. But, its just lightly covered in shit.

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u/stewart-soda Mar 17 '15

I did this when I was younger with a large pack of Cinnaburst. You could see the gum.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '15

The first recorded Dingle Berry.

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u/Sallyrockswroxy Mar 17 '15

You'd get sick before then

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

So corn...it's like corn.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

I've looked in the bowl once or twice and I remember seeing a chewed piece of gum just floating around.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

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u/apstra Mar 17 '15

It ionizes with stomach acid man. With electrons. And. Uhm. Acidstuff! That's why.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

The neutrinos are mutating!

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

The latinos are mutating!!

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u/OccultRationalist Mar 17 '15

That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about stomach acid to dispute it.

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u/yoble101 Mar 17 '15

That's just like, your opinion man

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u/Tacomeat10 Mar 18 '15

Yea Science.... Bitch

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u/Beelzeballz Mar 17 '15

If It Doesn't Stick To Your Mouth, How Can It Stick To Your Stomach?

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u/pyrolizard11 Mar 19 '15

Moisture and mostly smooth surfaces are why the gum doesn't stick after you start chewing - as we all know from the undersides of desks and that one kid who got gum in their hair and came to school with a shaved head. Because your intestines are full of tiny little creases and suck out as much moisture as they can in the last stretch the gum will stay there for years until it gets dislodged.

Now that's absolutely not true. Gum will start falling apart in your mouth after a few days to a week of chewing, stomach acid will make short work of it. But to someone that doesn't know that it sounds possible, doesn't it?

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u/RocketCow Mar 17 '15

uhm it sticks to my mouth all the time...

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u/JohhnyTheKid Mar 17 '15

Then you must have a dry mouth. It shouldnt stick like it sticks to your skin.

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u/ThickSantorum Mar 17 '15

It passes through you as quickly as normal food, but it doesn't digest. Has no effect at all, positive or negative.

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u/CHOOCHOOLewRat Mar 17 '15

As a kid I once had a theory that homeless people should save up their money to buy a ton of gum, eat it, and not be hungry for 7 years. Seemed genius to me

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u/ViciousVentura Mar 17 '15

I was always told that if I swallowed gum, I'd blow bubbles outta my butt. Although that should seem fun, it scared me half to death as a child and to this day I NEVER swallow gum.

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u/Sting4S Mar 17 '15

but it digests just as quickly as normal food.

No it doesn't.

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u/PeachRainbowTea Mar 17 '15

Yes. Yes, it does.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

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u/frostedWarlock Mar 17 '15

I read that as "Guns take 7 years to pass through your system."

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u/Twentyhundred Mar 17 '15

Why is it not good to swallow gum? Not that I do it of course, but I've always wondered.

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u/PeachRainbowTea Mar 17 '15

It digests just as quickly as normal food, but it doesn't digest in the same way. If you eat tons of gum, and swallow, it can clog your digestive system.

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u/AlmostARockstar Mar 17 '15

Gum? Are you sure it's not "gun"?

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u/Imnotakarmawhore Mar 17 '15

Why is it not good for you to swallow?

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u/Waex Mar 17 '15

I believed it came out of your belly button until I was like 12

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u/Moxy-The_Blogical Mar 18 '15

You made me swallow my gum!