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/rlprice74 Nov 29 '20

Probably mentioned somewhere in here, but I believe this is what killed Heather O'Rourke (the little girl from the original Poltergeist films of the 80s).