The word "fart" was thought up in 1632; it means "to send forth wind from the anus," and comes from the Old English word "feortan," which means "to break wind."
Farts can travel at speeds of about ten feet per second, almost seven miles per hour.
On average, people fart about fourteen times a day, producing enough gas to fill up a balloon. This means everyone should have multiple opportunities to fully celebrate National Pass Gas Day today.
It is fitting that yesterday was National Bean Day, because people often fart after eating beans.
Other foods that are flatulence enablers include cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, eggs, and dairy products.
Of course, most notably, this includes the infamous Jerusalem artichoke. It has also come to be known by another, darker name: the Fartichoke.
Pressure builds up while foods such as these are broken down and digested in the colon, and it is released by passing gas. A mixture of gases make up farts, such as nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, sulfur dioxide, and methane.
About ninety-nine percent of gas is odorless, but it is the other one percent that can really stink up a room. The smelly component of farts is usually sulfurous.
Common gases that give it its smell include dimethyl sulfide, methanethiol, and hydrogen sulfide. Foods like eggs and meat have a higher sulfur content and help produce smellier farts.
The methane and hydrogen in farts also makes them flammable. This may not sound like that big of a deal, but there are examples of cows farting themselves into flames. That's right, animals fart too. And the belief that women fart less than men? It just isn't true.
Fart sounds vary and depend on how much gas is released, the force at which it comes out, and the tightness of one's sphincter muscles. People who have tight anuses have louder farts.
Farts have been looked on as being humorous for millennia. The earliest recorded fart joke dates to 1900 B.C.E in Sumeria, when a jokester said, "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."
Fart jokes have continued into modern times, often being included in stand-up comedy routines and films. Whoopie cushions have also been used to joke about flatulence.
Flatulists are those who fart for a living. French flautist and entertainer Joseph Pujol, or Le Pétomane, whose name meant "fartomaniac",
He was a prominent flatulist in France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly fart at will.
More recently, Mr. Methane has been bringing his farting talent to the stage, even appearing on Britain's Got Talent.
Farts have not only been performed on the stage, but have appeared in the writings of Italian poet Dante Alighieri, English poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare.
Benjamin Franklin even wrote an essay titled "Fart Proudly." He punned that compared to his ruminations on flatulence, other scientific investigations were "scarcely worth a FART-HING".
HOW TO OBSERVE
Today is a day to just let it out and bask in the smell. Here are some ideas on how to celebrate the day:
• Pass gas. There are many healthy foods such as beans and cruciferous vegetables that can help you fart more than average today.
• Conversely, if you are already a prolific farter, you could celebrate the day by learning about ways to lessen the frequency of your farts.
• Count how many times you fart today.
• Plan a trip to the World Fart Championships. They have been held in Finland in the past, having taken place in 2013 and 2018.
Listen to some fart noises.
Read Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School (c. 1781) by Benjamin Franklin.
DATES
January 07, 2021
January 07, 2022
January 07, 2023
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