The increases seemed to taper off after some time, though, and the paper’s authors argue that the health benefits of beans outweigh any temporary tooting.

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SHOWDOWN - Get together your dream team, start the timer and complete whatever crazy challenge the game throws at you. Canadian Parliament once argued about the appropriateness of using the word fart on the chamber floor. So when each termite lets a half microgram of methane loose per day, it adds up to a lot: about 20 million tons of methane per year, or 1 to 3 percent of global methane emissions. He adopted the stage name Le Pétomane—which combined the French word for “to fart,” péter, with the suffix -mane, for "maniac"—and wowed the crowds with his talent for passing wind at will.

In one letter, written in December 1909, he used the word fart a total of 10 times—and mostly in an X-rated context.

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If it doesn’t fart to remove the air, it’s likely to die—either from being attacked by a predator when it floats to the top of the water, or because the gas bubbles rupture its intestines. James Joyce’s Ulysses is another classic that didn’t shy away from fart talk, but Joyce himself took it one step further.

Case studies—including a 2013 paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior—have been written about individuals who are aroused by flatulence, a proclivity known as “eproctophilia.

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To get to the bottom of the problem, they fed 10 volunteers 200 grams of baked beans in addition to their regular diet, then used rectal catheters to measure their flatulence over the next 24 hours. Geoffrey Chaucer had a character “let fly a fart as loud as it had been a thunder-clap” in The Canterbury Tales. If you’ve ever encountered one of those people who swears up and down that they don’t fart, they’re lying. May’s issue wasn’t with the political content of the conversation—it was, in her words, the use of “the word was f-a-r-t. But that didn’t stop some of history’s most celebrated thinkers from writing about cutting the cheese.

A 2011 study in Nutrition Journal comprised of three feeding studies found that some subjects who ate beans did see an increase in gas compared to a control group. The lack of clothing means there’s nothing to absorb the smell, and being in the shower means you’re in an enclosed space, so there’s nowhere for that stink burger to go.