1.71 is a number synonymous with Back to the Future..... 1.71 is the gigawatts (or jiggawatts for the uninitiated) required to time travel. 171 might also be the weight floating around in this flesh vehicle..... But nonetheless! The number 1 and 7 are about to get another claim to fame...... 'How' you might ask.....simple.... With Legos.
Continued imaginary dailogue
Non existentent person: ....k well what special or significant there?
Me: well.......poop
N E P: still don't follow
Me: that how long it takes to poop a Lego...
*Awkwardmoment passes*
N E P: ...ooooooooo
More on that right now!
I've seen this article Makin it's way around the internet for about a week or so now. I've seen all sorts of sites covering it and it's all probably stemming from some same master article, heck, even adding another link to the chain by regurgitating this myself. But it is too golden to pass up!
After swallowing the Lego noggin, each participant was responsible for analyzing their own poo to locate the object. According to the blog, “[a] variety of techniques were tried – using a bag and squashing, tongue depressors and gloves, chopsticks – no turd was left unturned.” After retrieving the Lego head, the participants calculated their Found and Retrieved Time (FART) Score, or the number of days it took to pass the Lego.
this is the kind of hard-hitting science some of us low-key think about randomly or when you get super stoned! Lol. You can't make this stuff up, I swear.
Amanda Kooser at CNET reports that doctors associated with the medical blog Don’t Forget the Bubbles knew that there was a lot of data about swallowing coins, the foreign object most commonly swallowed by children, which take about 2 weeks to pass. But data on how long it takes a plastic toy piece to worm its way through the body is scanty. That’s why they recruited test subjects with no history of intestinal surgery to swallow the plastic head of a Lego figurine. They then examined their poo to see how long it took until the decapitated Lego head came out.
My source for this was the Smithsonian magazine website and you can click that whole name or here or even the Lego photo for this article to link up with that article I'm talking about. But long story short......about 1.71 days to poop out a Lego...so...yup.... There's your pointless knowledge for today! I'll leave you with this takeaway
The upshot of the study is that, at least for adults, the toy object seemed to pass through with no complications. But as they write on their blog, the team cautions that the study was really just a bit of fun before the holidays and that it does not apply to children who swallow bits of toys. The sample size was also small, making the study of questionable value to the adult population as well.
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