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Poop facts!

It’s that time again! Taken from my calendar below, the 2009 version.

Yellow Poo:

Sometimes the body produces a yellow-hued poo, leaving us to wonder, “Why?” Like most changes in the hue of poo, long-lasting perturbations are most worrisome. The main cause of yellow poo is the presence of fat in the stool, which occurs when dietary fats can’t be digested by the body. This produces a yellow, glistening, floating stool, indicating a problem with the small intestine, pancreas, or liver.

Miso-Filled Condoms and Poo:

Low-flow toilets became required by U.S. law in 1994, but many Americans didn’t like them, going so far as to smuggle higher-volume toilets in from Canada. Their complaint was that it took several flushes to get things down. This provoked engineer Bill Gauley of Veritec Consulting to develop a test for toilet effectiveness. But what material should the testers flush? After several experiments, the team settled on miso paste encased in a condomlike membrane. Gauley’s Maximum Performance (MaP) test has since become industry standard.

Non-Perforated Toilet Paper

Non-perforated toilet paper was the norm until the British Perforated Paper Company introduced perforated toilet paper in 1880. Unlike some other toilet paper (such as Scott, available at the time), perforated toilet paper didn’t come on rolls.

To Sit or Stand up to Wipe?

A study found that most people in North America wipe while sitting, some claiming that sitting allows for better separation of the cheeks.