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Your Guts Are Huge!

  • January 11, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Although the small intestine is narrower than the large intestine, it is much longer — about 22 feet instead of 5. Because of all the folds and wrinkles in the small intestine, its absorptive surface is around the size of a tennis court!

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