For some reason, talking about shit is considered bad form. And this is very strange. After all, everything is croaked: insects, animals, birds, fish, and people, of course.
With feces we come across every day, and most of us know about them only that it's a hideous smelly substance. But this, of course, is not all the facts about the excrement. You will learn more about the shit from the article.
1. People suffering from recurrent diarrhea caused by C. difficile can perform fecal transplantation.
Together with the feces of a healthy person, the patient is transplanted with an intestinal microbiota. "Healthy" microorganisms begin to multiply actively and in due course compensate for the lack of bacteria necessary for normal vital activity of the intestine.
2. Even if there is no time, defecation will be carried out.
The fact is that the feces only partially consist of processed food. In addition, their composition includes gastric and intestinal juices, secretion products.
3. Do not panic if you have the urge to defecate at the entrance to the library.
This is the Mariko Aoki Phenomenon. The desire to go by the big appears, as soon as smells of ink and paper reach the smelling center. The laxative effect of fragrances is explained by the fact that people associate them with reading in comfortable conditions, including in the toilet.
4. It is known that some animals eat their feces. But people can also afford such antics.
This phenomenon is called "coprophagia". Medicine even knows the case when a 6-year-old girl ate her excrement and took pleasure in smearing them on the body. To cure her, doctors even had to create false feces.
5. According to some historical records, the ancient Egyptians used crocodile shit for contraception.
6. Departing, the crew of the Apollo 11 left several things on the Moon: boots, an olive branch and ... Neil Armstrong's feces.
7. It is difficult to remain a professional athlete when suddenly the stomach is twisted. But not in the case of Larry Izzo.
This football player made the need for the sideline right during the game - and did it so that no one noticed - and safely returned to the system.
8. Chinese scientists have decided that from the love of pandas to bamboo can be profited and engaged in the study of technologies for the production of toilet paper from the excrement of these animals.
9. Do you want to - believe, want - no, and in your feces contain valuable metals.
Such, for example, as gold, silver. According to some estimates, a million Americans can pump valuable metals at $ 13 million.
10. During the war in Africa, the Nazis had a tradition - they believed that driving a camel fired tank - to luck. Upon learning this, the Allied troops began to hide mines in "happy heaps."
11. Archaeologists sometimes find petrified feces. They are called coprolites. Such finds are a rarity.
12. The length of the first British bus route, powered by human excrement, was 24 km. The locals have already nicknamed him a "kakashbush".
13. Faeces easily ignite. One summer in New York from the anomalous heat, there was even a spontaneous combustion of equine excrement.
The fire broke out over a fairly large area. It took about two hours to extinguish it and it took three fire crews.
14. For sloths, the act of defecation is akin to death. The problem is that most of the life these animals spend on trees, and they have to defecate once a week on the ground, where they are most vulnerable.
15. In the nineteenth century, New Yorkers faced a problem - the streets were literally drowned in horse dung, remaining from numerous horse-drawn carriages.
Looking at how much dirt horses produce, people even found cars more environmentally friendly.
16. It's hard to believe this, but in the highest skyscraper in Dubai, there is no sewer system. All feces from the building are taken out by trucks.
17. Despite the fact that feces are mostly solid and keep in shape, it is 75% water.
18. Japanese women believe that nightingale excrement is able to rejuvenate the skin and slow the aging process, and make them a face mask. Ladies who have experienced the effect of miracle means say that bird droppings have a musty smell.
19. Green feces makes people nervous. But the reasons for changing the color of feces can be completely harmless - such as a large amount of greenery in the diet, for example.
20. One day George Clooney joked about his neighbor and went to the toilet in the tray of his cat. The joke was a success. The unfortunate neighbor seriously decided that his pet's problem.
21. Some caterpillars can "shoot" with shit for a distance of up to 1.5 meters. So insects protect their nests.
22. There are plenty of reasons to hate colonoscopy, but this one is like a cherry on a cake.
Did you know about the existence of such a thing as "explosion of colonic gases" ?! And it actually is. Like the phenomenon that the term describes. Fortunately, explosions happen very, very, very rarely.
23. Lovers of running around in the warm sand, keep in mind: in fact, you can frolic on the feces of parrotfish.
They eat corals, which are digested in grains of sand. According to statistics, for the year the fish produce about 400 kg of sand.
24. In extremely rare cases with very severe constipation, when feces can not leave the body in a natural way, people may begin fecal vomiting.
25. This is only at first glance Adelie penguins are lovely.
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In fact, these are still bandits who can throw litter at a distance of up to 40 centimeters.