The Fry Side

Here is why mental_floss is great:

As long as we eat, flatulence is going to be a fact of life. Gas is a by-product of the digestion process and we normally produce a half a liter of it everyday in the form of 14-20 farts.

The source of that gas is the bacteria that live in the lower intestinal tract. Any food that doesn’t get broken down in the stomach or the small intestine winds up in the large intestine in an undigested state, where it’s met by colonies of bacteria that break it down and convert it into nutrients. While the bacteria go about their business, they produce various gasses as by-products, including methane, hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide (this last one is the cause of the stench). All these gases then descend to the rectum where they’re released with the trumpeting fanfare of the vibrating anal sphincter. [emphasis mine]

I wonder if they’re hiring.