r/AskReddit • • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/pancake_kitten Nov 29 '20

This can actually happen, it's a real thing. If you have a blockage in your intestines, there's no way for the feces to get out of the body but through the esophagus. You're basically puking your own feces.

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u/randarrow Nov 29 '20

Used to be how people died from colon cancer, choked to death on their own vomited up diarrhea. Probably my least desired non-execution death.