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110mm is roughly the size of a popsicle stick. I guess you could swallow it if you tried hard enough...
by newaccount74 4y ago
110mm is roughly the size of a popsicle stick. I guess you could swallow it if you tried hard enough...
- jaclaz 4y agoSurely, but I don't want to try, historically there is the Chevalier Jackson collection: https://muttermuseum.org/exhibitions/chevalier-jackson-collection https://muttermuseum.org/exhibitions/chevalier-jackson-colle... that has many interesting items, including spoons and keys, that are about that size. I could only find a picture of some of these on a Lancet article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61589-X/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... There are reports of even bigger/longer objects, such as a tootbrush (8 inch/20 cm long): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080583/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080583/ but they are recorded as exceptional, I was initially thinking of something loosely spherical, in that case it is more probably something less than 20 mm or 4/5 of an inch in size/diameter that can be ingested, bar the exceptional cases. But all these recorded items seem like having needed to be removed, I couldn't find anything about something (say) 100 mm long that managed to "pass through" naturally.