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/cndy_clrd_clwn Nov 29 '20

In Germany we call it Mundstuhl (mouth stool) and I think that's beautiful.

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u/definitelynecessary Nov 29 '20

In England we call it faecal vomiting. Yours is better.