15 Absolutely Ridiculous Facts About Poop That You Need To Know
Nathan Johnson
Published
09/26/2015
the most interesting things about poop you didn't know
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Neil Armstong did a poop on the moon. OK, not quite. But he did leave a few bags of poop there when he walked on the surface. -
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Germans once believed camel poo was lucky. So much so that allied forces actually started disguising land mines as camel poop during the start of WWII. -
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Wombats use poop to find their way back home. Wombats poo in distinctive cube-shapes, so they can follow cubes of their own poop back home after their adventures. -
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Poop has proven that 9/11 calmed the whales down. It had been suspected for a while that the noise from ships was stressing out whales. After 9/11, ship travel in and out of the States ceased temporarily, and there was a noticeable decrease in stress hormones measured in whale poo. -
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Shooting stars might actually be shooting poop. Some of the shooting stars we see at night are actually pieces of astronaut poop burning up as they reaches the Earth’s atmosphere. -
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Book smell actually makes people want to poo. That nice musty book smell can have a laxative effect. There’s even a name for the phenomenon of needing to poop every time you go into a book store – it’s called the Mariko Aoki phenomenon. -
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Certain illnesses can be treated by transplanting healthy poo into the intestines of sick people. The treatment is called fecal transplant, or human probiotic infusion, and has a 95% success rate in certain conditions. -
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There’s a pill that literally allows you to poop gold. Just because you can. -
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A man once brought poop into a courtroom, smeared it on his lawyer and threw some at the jury. He was charged with robbery, and was consequently also found guilty of assault by poop. -
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Larry Izzo from the New England Patriots once took a dump on the side of the field during a game. No one even noticed, so he went and told a whole bunch of people about his accomplishments afterwards. They were so impressed they awarded him the game ball. -
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Mozart loved poop jokes. Sure, he was a child genius and one of the most gifted composers ever, but he also liked to writer letters to people that featured obscene poop jokes. -
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The Parrot Fish poops sand. Weirdly, this fish eats coral and then sand comes out at the other end. Sounds painful. -
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Pandas can poop up to 48 pounds per day. That’s a lot of bamboo. -
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Artist Piero Manzoni once filled 90 tin cans with his own poop and sold them for their weight in gold. He even labelled them “Artist sh*t”, so the people who bought them definitely knew what was going on. -
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Sloths do a poo dance. They only poop once a week, and when they do, they really make a song and dance out of it.
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