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Everybody farts. But here are 9 surprising facts about flatulence you may not know. – Vox

Everybody farts. But here are 9 surprising facts about flatulence you may not know. – Vox

But even though it's such a routine activity — the average person farts between 10 and 20 times per day — there's a lot about farting that you might not know.

As part of research into the microbiome — the rich community of bacteria that live throughout your body — scientists have learned all sorts of interesting things about the bacteria that produce gas inside your intestines. Here are nine crucial things to know about flatulence

Planet Money : NPR

Clinton-era PR campaign misled Americans about single-payer health care : Planet Money : NPR

Wendell Potter spent decades scaring Americans. About Canada. He worked for the health insurance industry, and he knew that if Americans understood Canadian-style health care, they might.... like it. So he helped deploy an industry playbook for protecting the health insurance agency.

Today on the show, a former hitman for health reveals how he terrified Americans, and why.

It's a story about manipulating statistics, fighting Michael Moore, and getting mysterious packages in the mail. It's even got secret code names.

QAnon’s Obsession With #SaveTheChildren Is Making It Harder To Save Kids From Traffickers | FiveThirtyEight

QAnon’s Obsession With #SaveTheChildren Is Making It Harder To Save Kids From Traffickers | FiveThirtyEight

It’s hard to argue against a phrase like “save the children.” Which, presumably, is why QAnon uses it as a hashtag. The growing online conspiracy cult has co-opted the phrase to push falsehoods about pedophiles who run the world. But in promoting its radical worldview, QAnon has made life difficult for the organizations actually trying to save children. And the results could be putting kids at risk.

QAnon is a baseless conspiracy regardless of how deep you go, but its fixation on pedophilia is particularly unmoored. Devoted QAnon followers believe — to varying levels of detail — that there is a secret cabal of powerful elites who run an underground pedophilia ring, and that President Trump is currently working to bring these evildoers to justice. If you go all the way down the rabbit hole you’ll find theories about Bill Gates injecting tracking devices into every citizen, blood libel, devil worship and draining kids of a chemical compound called adrenochrome to become immortal. But the underlying connective tissue of QAnon is that bad people, mainly Democrats, are trafficking children and Trump is the only one who can stop them.