Fun Fact of the Day

Scientists call catfish "swimming tongues" because they have more than 250,000 taste buds located all over their bodies.


Yay.

What does poop taste like?

I didn't know what poop tastes like, and I don't really WANT to know, either. But a guy named Gibbletwunt has told me, so now, I'll share his inspiring story with you:

When I was seven, my dad uncovered our family’s sewage system. There was some kind of blockage somewhere, so part of our backyard had an open channel full of poop and pee leading to the now uncovered septic tank, which was obviously also full of poop and pee.

My mates would occasionally come to my house for an A-Team episode re-enactment (it was 1987!). During one of these, I outran the bad guys and performed an impressive army-roll. Then I plunged head-first into the septic tank.

Your first instinct when you fall into water, or as in this instance, poopy pee-ey turd jam, is to breathe IN. Deeply. Which I did. I must have swallowed about three grumpies and was almost drowning in my own family's effluent when I was fished out by my dad. 

So today, I have a vivid memory of what poo tastes like. I can assure you that it's not pleasant. It doesn't really taste like chicken. It's slightly alkaline and has chunks in it.

Ever wonder what bird poop tastes like? Me either!

I just heard a story from someone code-named biscuitbiscuit. It involves bird poop. And it made me laugh:

Got back to my car after a long
 day at work, only to discover an enormous bird
 poop right in the middle of my windshield. I had 
nothing to clean it off with— no 
water, no tissues, no scraper, nothing. But I
 couldn't have driven as I wouldn't have been
 able to see anything.

So I cleaned the bird poop off with 
my hand.

Then, as I pulled out my keys, I had a 
bizarre moment of brain-fade and thought “What's
 that all over my hand?” and cheerfully licked it 
to find out. 

This was followed by hacking, gagging and
 spitting to try and get the bird poop out of my 
mouth! I am an idiot. An idiot who was lucky not
 to be ill. An idiot who was also very lucky not 
to be seen by anyone!