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Have you ever wondered just HOW much you fart per day? Like...would it fill a soda can? A soda bottle? And would you be willing to stick a tight fitting tube up your rectum and wear it around all day to find out? If not, that's ok! They already wrote a paper on it. Head over to Neurotic Physiology and check it out!