Poop Facts

Researchers find new emperor penguin colonies by looking for their poop from a satellite in space.

There are gold pills for sale that turn your poop into glittering gold.

Sloths only poop once a week. The event is called 'the poo dance' because they wiggle their butts.

The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!

In the UK, there's a bus service that's powered by poop.

Hyenas regularly eat the feces of other animals!

Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.

The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)

The wombat is the only animal on Earth that poops in cubes - 80 to 100 neat, flat-sided blocks every night. For years nobody knew how; everyone assumed a square exit. There isn't one. Engineer Patricia Yang mapped a wombat's intestines and found two stretchy groove regions where the gut wall flexes unevenly, moulding the waste into cubes. The wombat then stacks them to mark territory - and cubes don't roll away.