1. Every year, parks in London alone are  
   doused in one million gallons of dog urine.
    
   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 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.
  
   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.
    
   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.

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