shit facts
1. The ancient Egyptians used to make tampons out of dried crocodile shit.
2. Sewage treatment plants don't add anything to the mountains of shit they process - it's so virulent that it breaks itself down.
3. In 1976, Robert Milford of Michigan USA shat in a bottle and threw it in the sea with a note. It was later found by a fisherman in the Yellow Sea.
4. A dump taken from the observation deck of the Empire State Building will cover an area of five square metres on landing.
5. In Victorian London, hordes of poor people would comb the city streets for dog turds, which they'd then sell by weight to tanneries for the production of fine leather.
6. An elephant can shit it's own weight in three days.
7. In the middle ages, rat shit was used as an ingredient in the first soap production. This caused plague.
8. A healthy human turd should weigh around 600g.
9. The Chinese believe that constipation is a kind of demonic possession.
10. Peter Andre was conceived by anal sex.

Three of these facts are true. But which ones?
(frankspencer, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:20, 13 replies)

Fact 10
Its true - I once met his mother
( KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO Signed the sex offenders register on, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:24, closed)

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Well, the Peter Andre one for sure. He must have been spawned from the caramel dribble out of his Mummy's cornhole. It's the world's worst case of Cross-Infection.
(Rsoles, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:25, closed)

...
1, possibly. I think they used it as birth control as well (as in "If you've got croc poo on your knob there's no way you're coming anywhere near my foofe")
2.
5.

Six can't be true - the poor grammar is a giveaway. Frank: I'm surprised at you.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:28, closed)

Holds hand up!!!
5,9 and 10


Smug grin
( girlinthehole, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:30, closed)

None are true
They are all shit
(TheWatcher, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:30, closed)

Fact 5
Yup.

Urine also has surprising uses through the ages - mouthwash, bleaching clothes, ingredient of gunpowder to name but three.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:35, closed)

...
2, 5 and 9?
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:43, closed)

I'll go for
2 and 9. But the third.....hmm...don't know.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:48, closed)

Well,
3, 4 and 10. Obviously.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:52, closed)

Nah
Poo itself isn't "virulent". It rots, eventually, after it has been used as fertiliser for all sorts of yummy vegetables.

FACT : I can't eat tomatoes after watching Tomorrow's World as a child, and seeing some presenter stride up to a mound of human shit which had some tomato plants growing on top, sprouted from the seeds in the ca-ca, pluck one of the juicy ripe fruit, smile at the camera and take a great big bite out of it.
Since then, whole tomatoes are a no-no for me, absolutely.
Talk about Trauma TV
(Rsoles, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:53, closed)

enzyme wins
smart arse
(frankspencer, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 13:16, closed)

^
nah, 'coz to be a smartarse he'd have to be smart...
Oh yeah.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 13:41, closed)

@Rsoles
You've just given me a money saving idea - perhaps I should shit in my tomato pots this year, instead of wasting money on proprietary fertiliser. Much more environmentally friendly!

Might make the greenhouse a bit stinky though. And I'd have to carry it out from the house in a bag, as shitting in situ might upset the neighbours.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 13:46, closed)