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5 unusual facts about feces


Ceratosaurus

More recently, a Ceratosaurus made a brief appearance in the film Jurassic Park III in which it is repelled from attacking the main characters by a large mound of Spinosaurus dung.

Constantine V

Constantine's avowed enemies over this extremely emotional issue, the iconodules, applied to him the derogatory epithet Kopronymos ("dung-named", from kopros, meaning "feces" or "animal dung", and onoma, "name").

Douche and Turd

Embarrassed by the bland choices, the kids decide to fill in a joke candidate but disagree as to whether it should be a "giant douche" or a "turd sandwich".

Dry enema

A further advantage of this technique for sexual hygiene is that any slight remaining traces of fecal material will - due to the presence of the lubricant - tend to adhere to the wall of the rectum rather than to any foreign object which may subsequently be inserted.

Fex urbis lex orbis

Fex urbis lex orbis is a Latin saying, meaning "Dregs classical Latin faex of the city, law of the world", that is, the lowest class of citizens determines how the world works.


2006 Russian ban of Moldovan and Georgian wines

In May 2005, Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili stated that "many Georgian wine producers exported falsified wine to Russia, because Russia is a market where you can sell even turds".

Autovía A-75

It is 12.7 km (7.9 miles) long and runs, parallel to the N-532 road, from the Autovía A-52 near the small city of Verín to the Portuguese border at the village of Feces de Abaixo, where it connects with the A24 autoestrada to Chaves.

Complex-toothed flying squirrel

In Traditional Chinese medicine the feces of the squirrel, known as the Five Spirits Grease (五靈脂, wǔ líng zhī) are believed to help against ulcer in the duodenum.

Cow dung

A buffalo chip, also called a meadow muffin, is the name for a large, flat, dried piece of dung deposited by the American Bison.

Fasciolopsiasis

The parasite infects an amphibic snail (Segmentina nitidella, Segmentina hemisphaerula, Hippeutis schmackerie, Gyraulus, Lymnaea, Pila, Planorbis (Indoplanorbis)) after being released by infected feces; from this intermediate host, metacercaria infest on aquatic plants like water spinach, which are eaten raw by pigs and humans.

Impaction

Fecal impaction, a solid, immobile bulk of human feces that can develop in the rectum

Maximum Absorbency Garment

A Maximum Absorbency Garment (MAG) is a piece of clothing NASA astronauts wear during liftoff, landing, and extra-vehicular activity (EVA) to absorb urine and feces.

Mucker

In publishing, a mucker (or muckraker) is a person who digs through the figurative feces (see On a farm) to find the truth.

Occult blood

Fecal occult blood, blood present in the feces that is not visibly apparent

Paragonimus westermani

Eggs first develop in water after being expelled by coughing (unembryonated) or being passed in human feces.

Pseudofeces

The unwanted material is periodically ejected (usually through the inhalant siphon or aperture) by contractions of the adductor muscles, which "clap" the shells together, pushing most of the water out of the mantle cavity and forcibly ejecting both the feces and the pseudofeces.

Small Feces

Small Feces includes basically all the exclusive songs from Turbonegro's many vinyl-only releases starting with their debut single Route Zero and the Turboloid EP on Straitjacket, the Vaya Con Satan single on Sympathy, continuing with several bonus tracks & b-sides from their records for Sympathy, Munster, Big Ball, Hit Me!

Timeline of the Greater Victoria Water System

In 1995, 100 people became ill when water from the Humpback reservoir, which was still in service, became contaminated with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which causes toxoplasmosis, from the feces of feral cats.

Toshisada Nishida

Before scientists learned to analyse DNA from fecal or hair samples, the only way to determine kinship relations was to hunker down for the long term.

Trichuris muris

After establishing their place in the intestinal wall, the adult worms mate and release unembryonated eggs into the environment via the feces.

Vertidue

Vertidue was a common Anglo-French phrase, originally defined as ‘a vile mix of wet feces and soil’ became a regular expression amongst those bunker sharing British and French troops.


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