24 interesting things about sh!t
Nathan Johnson
Published
10/06/2014
Poop facts are always fun
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There are four bags of astronaut poop on the moon, left behind by Neil Armstrong on his Apollo mission to moon. -
2.
The Parrot Fish eats coral and poops sand. This has led to creation for many small islands and beaches of the Caribbean. -
3.
Doctors are transplanting poop from healthy people into the stomachs of people with certain illnesses, and it is healing them at a rate of 91-98. -
4.
Larry Izzo of New England Patriots NFL once took a poop while on the sideline and got the game ball for his trouble because he did it without anybody noticing. -
5.
George Clooney once cleaned his roommate's cat's litter box for four days, then crapped in it himself, causing the roommate to think it was from his constipated cat. -
6.
3 billion people around the world still rely on charcoal and dung to cook their food. -
7.
Pandas can poop up to 48 pounds per day. -
8.
In 2009, a man on trial in San Diego brought a bag of poop into the courtroom, smeared feces on his lawyer and then threw the remainder of the poop at the jury. He was charged with robbery and two counts of assault by poop and was sentenced to 31 years in prison. -
9.
Wombats have cube shaped poop, which they use to remember where they live. -
10.
Scientists were monitoring whale stress levels by analyzing their poop and found that their stress plummeted immediately following the 9-11 attacks. It turns out this was due to all air traffic being halted, which calmed the oceans of low frequency noise which whales use to communicate. -
11.
Sloths only poop once a week and its called the poo dance. -
12.
In 1961, the Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with his feces, labeled it Artists Shit and sold them according to their equivalent weight in gold. Many of the cans have since exploded due to decomposition producing gas inside the sealed tins. Apparently this makes the price of the remaining cans go up because they are rarer, so its worth way more than its weight in gold now, each containing 30g of poop worth 100k USD today. -
13.
There is a pill that makes you poop gold and it is sold for 275 USD. -
14.
Mozart had an extremely off-color, absurd sense of humor, often exchanging letters with friends and family with verses such as: Oui, by the love of my skin, I shit on your nose, so it runs down your chin. -
15.
The smell of books makes some people need to poop. The Mariko Aoki phenomenon consists of the urge to defecate while visiting a bookstore. Originating in Japan, it is named after the woman who first publicized such an urge. -
16.
In WWII, German tank drivers in Africa used to drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung. -
17.
Paula Radcliffe, the winner of the 2005 London Marathon, pooped on the side of the road in full view of spectators and cameras. -
18.
Salvador Dali smeared himself with goat dung before meeting his wife for the first time. -
19.
In India, a company makes paper products out of elephant dung. -
20.
Ancient Egyptians used pessary made of dried crocodile dung as a form of contraception. -
21.
The 3.6 million year old Laetoli footprints, one of the most important finds concerning Human evolution and evidence of upright bipedal walking, was discovered by Paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill when he dove into the ground in the middle of an elephant dung fight with his colleague. -
22.
Some of the shooting stars we see are actually astronaut poop burning up in the atmosphere. -
23.
All the poop generated on the US Navys newest Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier will be vaporized by plasma. -
24.
In the early years of the 20th century, horses were causing so much pollution with their poop that automobiles were seen as the green alternative.
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