My elementary school teacher told us once that Americans only poop once a week. The climate is colder in North America, so their intestines pack the poop together very densely such that they only need to poop once a week. She said you'd be sent to the doctor if you poop daily in America.

Is this true?

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[–] 102 points 6 months ago (8 children)

That’s silly. North America is huge. In the US South, it’s very common for people to poop every day. In fact, you usually wouldn’t even talk to a doctor about it. But as you get to the northern states and into Canada, it’s so cold that people don’t poop at all!

So the 1 day thing is probably just someone averaging out the numbers.

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  • [–] 77 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Pooping Georg, who lives in a cave and poops 10,000 times a day, is an outlier adn should not be counted

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Georg washes out the canyons and floods the plains with nutrients. He single handedly sustains a nation. How dare you.

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