Smuggling is no stranger to prisons. One way to do this is through a persons body, mainly through the digestive tract. Two ways of doing this is hooping (holding objects in the anus) and swallowing the objects. While swallowing can lead to overdose while smuggling drugs, hooping can be very uncomfortable because they have to hold it for long periods of time and doesn't last as long.
INFLAMMABLE YOU
When we are digesting food, we create flammable gasses, namely hydrogen and methane. However, if we are near a flame and passing gas, it can ignite. This can also happen when belching if your food stays in your stomach for an abnormally long period. A glimpse of the origins of dragons was also gained in this chapter. One of the theories is that it was a snake that "breathed fire." This could happen if hunter in early times had collected a dead snake that was digesting an animal and placed it by a fire. If the snake's body was pressured at the right moment, a release of inflammable gasses would come from the digested animal inside the snakes belly and caught fire, creating the idea of a fire breathing reptile the dragon.
Dragofyre7. Fire-breathing Dragon. Digital image. Http://dragofyre7.deviantart.com/. DeviantART, 18 May 2004. Web. 16 Aug. 2013.
DEAD MAN'S BLOAT
It is commonly know that beans can produce more flatulence in a person than other foods. This happens because they contain certain complex carbohydrates known as oligosaccharides which are found in legumes. Your small intestine has trouble absorbing the carbohydrates, so they are passed on tho the colon where bacteria break them down and produces hydrogen in the process. This can also happen with dairy products when people lose the enzyme that breaks down lactose, a sugar found in milk.
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