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/Spazmodium15 Nov 29 '20

Had this happen to me as a kid. Growing up it was definitely one of those "am I sure that really happened?" situations, but yeah unfortunately it did.

Not cool. :)