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I'm not sure why, but this makes me think of the time before ubiquitous internet, when the answers to questions like this one were much harder to come by.

by mkmk 2y ago

ljlolel 2y ago
Ditto
furyofantares 2y ago
What I did when I was a kid was swallow every gumball in a carton of gumballs to prove that they couldn't possibly be staying in my stomach for 7 years because nothing else would be getting through.
- soco 2y ago
  Science, b*tches!
- hammyhavoc 2y ago
  Narrator: Urban legends say they're still in his stomach to this day.
gmfawcett 2y ago
Yes, although the New York Public Library has had you covered since the 1960's: https://qz.com/732086/the-new-york-public-librarys-little-known-human-google-service-answers-any-question-by-phone https://qz.com/732086/the-new-york-public-librarys-little-kn...
lanstin 2y ago
I have had a low grade curiosity about this since the 1970s, so nice to have it definitively answered (tho I'm a bit sad gum is just plastic now). Next up: coke and Mentos, and swallowing sunflower seeds (although really this article answered that one implicitly).
dylan604 2y ago
Before the internet, everyone knew that if you swallowed a watermelon seed that it would grow in your belly. Ipsofacto, if you swallow gum, a gum tree would grow. It is known
- 13of40 2y ago
  Before the internet everything happened in periods of seven years. All the cells in your body would be replaced, your luck would recover from a broken mirror, the bankers would discharge your debt, and missing people would finally be declared dead. It was a much more elegant system than we have today. Edit: And of course, the seven year itch.
  - kstrauser 2y ago
    laughs in 7 year data retention, then cries
- hammyhavoc 2y ago
  When I heard the song about kookaburra and where they sit, I damn near shat. ("Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree, eating all the gum nut he can see...") :- O I was confusing kookaburra with chupacabra, and I also confused capybara with chupacabra too... and umpires with vampires... being a child was terrifying. LOL

I'm not sure why, but this makes me think of the time before ubiquitous internet, when the answers to questions like this one were much harder to come by.

by mkmk 2y ago

I'm not sure why, but this makes me think of the time before ubiquitous internet, when the answers to questions like this one were much harder to come by.

ljlolel 2y ago

Ditto

furyofantares 2y ago

What I did when I was a kid was swallow every gumball in a carton of gumballs to prove that they couldn't possibly be staying in my stomach for 7 years because nothing else would be getting through.

soco 2y ago
Science, b*tches!
hammyhavoc 2y ago
Narrator: Urban legends say they're still in his stomach to this day.

gmfawcett 2y ago

Yes, although the New York Public Library has had you covered since the 1960's: https://qz.com/732086/the-new-york-public-librarys-little-known-human-google-service-answers-any-question-by-phone https://qz.com/732086/the-new-york-public-librarys-little-kn...

lanstin 2y ago

I have had a low grade curiosity about this since the 1970s, so nice to have it definitively answered (tho I'm a bit sad gum is just plastic now). Next up: coke and Mentos, and swallowing sunflower seeds (although really this article answered that one implicitly).

dylan604 2y ago

Before the internet, everyone knew that if you swallowed a watermelon seed that it would grow in your belly. Ipsofacto, if you swallow gum, a gum tree would grow. It is known

13of40 2y ago
Before the internet everything happened in periods of seven years. All the cells in your body would be replaced, your luck would recover from a broken mirror, the bankers would discharge your debt, and missing people would finally be declared dead. It was a much more elegant system than we have today. Edit: And of course, the seven year itch.
- kstrauser 2y ago
  laughs in 7 year data retention, then cries
hammyhavoc 2y ago
When I heard the song about kookaburra and where they sit, I damn near shat. ("Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree, eating all the gum nut he can see...") :- O I was confusing kookaburra with chupacabra, and I also confused capybara with chupacabra too... and umpires with vampires... being a child was terrifying. LOL