Fascinating poop trivia (continued...)

    • Contrary to the celebrated tale, Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet. He was, however, a well-known plumber who helped to popularize its use.

    • The Bristol Stool Scale, or Bristol Stool Chart, is used by medical professionals to classify  human poop into seven different groups based on its form.

    • Bird poop is white because birds don't urinate. Their nitrogenous waste mixes with their poop, which is all excreted together, to form a whitish paste. The dark part of their whitewash is the poop.

    • In Southeast Asia, people don't sit on the toilet to make poop. The toilet is a low, porcelain-lined trench, and the user squats over it. Next to the toilet is a bin of water. You scoop water out of the bin with your left hand and use that to cleanse yourself.

    • The average person produces two pounds of poop per day.

    • Cow chip bingo is a popular event at county fairs and is often used as a fundraiser. Cows are placed in marked-off squares and prizes are awarded to those whose cows leave deposits in their squares.

    • The oldest coprolites (fossilized poop) are 1.9 billion years old and belong to tiny marine creatures.

    • The receptacle that is used to capture people's poop who don't have working toilets is called a honey bucket. A honey wagon picks up and carries the poop away. A night-soil carrier is someone who collects human poop by profession.
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