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That's it!?!?! It's OVER!?!?! ... I wanted more.

Most Europeans get scoped (colonoscopy) with sedation-on-demand. You're set up with an IV ready to go, and need only say the word. 80% never ask for the drugs.

Is it possible to literally knock the shit out of someone? Depends on the shit and who's knocking it. "I had a high school football coach who was an offensive tackle for the Washington Redskins," says gastroenterologist Mike Jones. "He swore to me that Mean Joe Greene hit him so had he had to change his pants...it would be tough to hit someone hard enough to knock a solid turd out of him and not kill him

By far the oddest reverse delivery on record is the holy-water enema. ...suggested that the holy-water clyster was a routine weapon in the exorcist's arsenal. This made a certain amount of sense: Why sprinkle the possessed with holy water when you can pump it right up inside them?

The scientific explanation for dragon myth.

Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ shout-out from Mary Roach in this book!

Here is another reason so many drug smugglers prefer to swallow contraband, despite the risk of an overdose. "The rectum is taboo across many of the regions where mules originate. In the Caribbean and Latin America, any use of the cavity is automatically associated with homosexuality, which can still lead to a fatal beating in many communities."...The rectal taboo is equally strong among Islamic terrorists.

Competitive eating.

Death of a bulimic. Sometimes Roach's descriptions of what animals and people have undergone (because of how scientifically interesting it is) makes me very upset and I have to skip a few pages.

Bursting a stomach by overfilling is a nearly impossible feat, owing to a series of protective reflexes.