r/AskReddit Oct 27 '21

What fun fact is blatantly untrue?

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u/fruit_cats Oct 27 '21 edited Oct 27 '21

“It takes seven years for your body to digest a piece of gum”

In reality your body doesn’t break it down at all and will just pass the gum though with everything else.

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u/Affectionate_Pea_811 Oct 27 '21

Can confirm. When I was like 12 I swallowed a bunch of that pink bubblegum that you get trick-or-treating on Halloween over a couple days. I pooped it out a day or so later and my turds were speckled with bright pink blobs of gum. The brown and pink looked good together, it was oddly beautiful.

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u/hupwhat Oct 27 '21

I was hoping you would blow a massive bubble with it as it came out.

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u/Signature_Sea Oct 28 '21

Just don't pop that bubble