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 1. Every year, parks in London alone are doused in one million 
    gallons of dog urine. [And how was _this_ measured? -Ed.]

 2. The germs present in human faeces can pass through up to ten 
    layers of toilet paper.

 3. The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.

 4. Contrary to popular belief, if you swallow chewing gum it does 
    not stay in the gut. Usually it will pass through the system 
    and is excreted without incident. However, several cases have 
    been reported where the gum has stuck in the rectum, causing the 
    unfortunate sufferer to excrete long sticky trails of gum, like 
    a pink spider's web.

 5. Several well-documented instances have been reported of extremely 
    obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. 
    The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.

 6. It is physically possible to cough your guts up.

 7. If your body's natural defences failed, the bacteria in your 
    gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you 
    from the inside out.

 8. What is one of the most difficult items for sewage works to 
    handle, as it is insoluble, yet fine enough to pass through most 
    filtration systems? Every month Thames Water removes over a ton 
    of this substance from its water treatment plants, whereupon it 
    is taken away to a land fill site and buried. 
    You guessed it - pubic hair!

 9. Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.

10. Henry II was murdered by his homosexual lover, who pushed a 
    red-hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum [??? -Ed.]

11. The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 
    33 metres in length.

12. A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had 
    been on safari in local rainforest, began to experience severe 
    pains in her left ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and 
    constant rustling sounds, at first put down to tinnitus. It 
    became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which 
    revealed that a spider which had become trapped in her ear. 
    Eventually it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within 
    the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider crawling 
    around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed.
    [Sounds a lot like Susan DeLucci's adventure with a lobster 
    in Maine... read all about it in Collection #27. -Ed.]

13. A man in Australia was concerned about a growing lump on his nose, 
    was examining it in the mirror and saw a red back spider crawl out. 
    Doctors found an entire red back nest inside his nose.

14. An obese woman was admitted to a Queensland hospital with stomach 
    pains. It turned out that her T.V. remote control was stuck in 
    between rolls of fat and had eventually become an abscess.

15. Another woman in Queensland who had lost a lot of weight went 
    to the doctor with a big, hard, horn-like object protruding from 
    her abdomen. Closer examination determined that it was years of 
    compacted belly-button fluff.


"Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall..."
- The Beatles (A Day in the Life)


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[Contributed by Peter]