The bodily function so universal, there's a kids book all about how everybody does it! But... is that kids book a lie?! Find out the answer to that and way more in this very overdue episode of Tangents!
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[Trivia Question]
Penguin poop distance traveled
https://iposeogsekk.com/penguano.pdf
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2005
[Fact Off]
AI listening to sounds of poop/diarrhea/fart
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/fart-monitoring-ai
Dagger made of frozen poop debunked (or, at the very least, not effective in lab conditions)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X19305371
https://nautil.us/the-problem-with-the-frozen-poop-knife-study-237572/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Period poops (progesterone/estrogen & prostaglandins)
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24411-prostaglandins
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3297513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3823955
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-do-you-poop-more-on-your-period/