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The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I once saw a guy drink 10 litres of water in a contest. He had to puke afterwards, but anyway, a stomach can hold more than 4 litres.

Wikipedia claims that the observed extreme maximum was 15 liters.

[โ€“] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Mythbusters once claimed that you couldn't die from drinking mentos and coke when they tests a pig stomach's capacity, oh man did that thing stretch like crazy, but they failed to account for flow from stomach into lungs while overfilling. In fact, merely a few liters could potentially prove fatal to a small untrained frame, such as those who died from the milk jug challenge.