“Parrots often bond with a keeper, from their perspective, as a lifelong romantic partner. If the person dies, or the parrot is displaced, they can go into massive depression and pluck out their own feathers.”
"Beaver anal glands secrete goo that’s used to make vanilla flavoring."
“Every time you walk into a stinky public bathroom, you are inhaling tiny bits of strangers’ poop.”
“Every single fig has had at least one wasp die inside it. These are known as fig wasps. Fig wasps are necessary for pollination, nutrients, and wasp power.”
“There is a phenomenon known as “stone baby” where a fetus dies and doesn’t get absorbed by the body. Instead, the fetus calcifies inside the mother’s abdomen. People have been known to carry around these mummified fetuses for 40 years, totally unaware.”
“Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, allegedly lost her virginity right on her mother’s grave.”
“Barcode scanners scan the white parts, not the black.”
“We consume about five grams of microplastics every week. This is roughly the equivalent to eating an entire credit card.”
“Since the eyes and nose are connected, blood from a nose bleed can travel to your tear ducts and start draining from there.”
“If you have an intestinal blockage, you can burp up farts. It’s called feculent vomiting, and it’s basically just throwing up your own poop.”
“Rabbits will eat their own young if they’re stressed enough.”
“No one knows how anesthetics work. Any time they put you ‘under’ for a routine operation, there’s currently no scientific explanation for why you’re unconscious.”
“You don’t know if there is a secret everybody knows except you.”
"If it feels threatened, a Fulmar Chick will spew sticky vomit at their enemy, which is typically another bird. This bird will try to wash off in the ocean, only to drown due to the sticky/oily texture causing their wings to stick together."
"Unborn babies grow mustaches in teh womb that eventually spread and cover their entire body. The baby then eats the hair and excretes it after birth with their first bowel movement."
"Every day, a person consumes around 1 to 2 cups of snot."
"Your bed can have up to 10 million dust mites."
"A person sweats around 1 cup per day."
"The Zoroastrians leave their dead in special towers to be eaten by vultures."
"Aztec priests believed that the tears of children could stop droughts."
"People used hollowed human skulls as bowls and cups back in ancient England."
"Ancient Romans believed that drinking blood would let them absorb power."
"Alchemists used brain matter as an ingredient for an elixir of eternal life."
"The floating specs you see probably aren’t dust but dead skin cells."
"The Vent Haven Museum houses vintage ventriloquist dummies."
"18th century doctors believed that bloodletting was necessary to “balance” one’s health."
"King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls."
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/castoreum/
Because of its scent properties castoreum has long been employed in the perfume-making industry, and processed forms of castoreum have also been used as food additives, in the latter case primarily as enhancers of vanilla, strawberry and raspberry flavorings found in products such as iced tea, ice cream, gelatin, candy, fruit-flavored drinks, and yogurt.
The use of castoreum in common food products today is exceedingly rare, in large part because collecting the substance is difficult (and therefore expensive). Castoreum does still have a significant market even today, but almost exclusively for the use of the perfume industry, not the food industry.
Basically people ate grounded mummies for centuries due to a translation error....
More than that : about 500 ml, and it is called perspiratio insensibilis I.e. perspiration you don't notice!