FYI, It Takes One to Three Days to Shit Out a Lego Brick
A completely normal conversation with the researchers who pooped out their toys for science
Emmet, Wyldstyle, Batman and the others may have had some pretty harrowing adventures between the first Lego movie and its new sequel, but compared to some other Legos, the gang have had it pretty easy. In an experiment published in Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, a team of six doctors swallowed a Lego head to see how long it would take for it to come out the other end.
Lead author Andrew Tagg, co-founder of the pediatric blog site Don’t Forget the Bubbles, tells me that he was motivated to try this experiment in order to help parents. “The two most common things swallowed by a child are coins and plastic toys, and while there’s plenty of data out there on how long it takes to pass a coin, there wasn’t really anything about plastic toys specifically,” he says. So he, along with some fellow pediatricians in Australia and the U.K., each swallowed a Lego head to see how long it would take to pass through the body. And to refute anyone who questioned if they really swallowed anything, they all videotaped themselves doing it.
To go along with the somewhat absurd theme of their study, the doctors developed several entertaining specs to measure. One of these was the SHAT score, which stands for Stool Hardness and Transit, in order to measure if the toy had an effect on the consistency of their bowel movements. There was also was the FART score, which stands for the Found and Retrieved Time of the brick.
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