Neil Armstong did a poop on the moon. OK, not quite. But he did leave a few bags of poop there when he walked on the surface.

Germans once believed camel poo was lucky. So much so that allied forces actually started disguising land mines as camel poop during the start of WWII.

Wombats use poop to find their way back home. Wombats poo in distinctive cube-shapes, so they can follow cubes of their own poop back home after their adventures.

Poop has proven that 9/11 calmed the whales down. It had been suspected for a while that the noise from ships was stressing out whales. After 9/11, ship travel in and out of the States ceased temporarily, and there was a noticeable decrease in stress hormones measured in whale poo.

Shooting stars might actually be shooting poop. Some of the shooting stars we see at night are actually pieces of astronaut poop burning up as they reaches the Earth’s atmosphere.

Book smell actually makes people want to poo. That nice musty book smell can have a laxative effect. There’s even a name for the phenomenon of needing to poop every time you go into a book store – it’s called the Mariko Aoki phenomenon.

Certain illnesses can be treated by transplanting healthy poo into the intestines of sick people. The treatment is called fecal transplant, or human probiotic infusion, and has a 95% success rate in certain conditions.

There’s a pill that literally allows you to poop gold. Just because you can.

A man once brought poop into a courtroom, smeared it on his lawyer and threw some at the jury. He was charged with robbery, and was consequently also found guilty of assault by poop.

Larry Izzo from the New England Patriots once took a dump on the side of the field during a game. No one even noticed, so he went and told a whole bunch of people about his accomplishments afterwards. They were so impressed they awarded him the game ball.

Mozart loved poop jokes. Sure, he was a child genius and one of the most gifted composers ever, but he also liked to writer letters to people that featured obscene poop jokes.

The Parrot Fish poops sand. Weirdly, this fish eats coral and then sand comes out at the other end. Sounds painful.

Pandas can poop up to 48 pounds per day. That’s a lot of bamboo.

Artist Piero Manzoni once filled 90 tin cans with his own poop and sold them for their weight in gold. He even labelled them “Artist sh*t”, so the people who bought them definitely knew what was going on.

Sloths do a poo dance. They only poop once a week, and when they do, they really make a song and dance out of it.