Consider the exploits of Frenchman Joseph Pujol, history’s most melodic master of flatulence. Early in life, in the 1860s, he discovered a rare ability to draw air into his rectum—to use as an organ ...

Pujol did not look like he was destined for stardom - with his black crew-cut hair, large nose, handle-bar moustache, lantern jaw and tall but bland body, he seemed more like an unobtrusive waiter ...