Yup, poo!
Was watching History Channel a little while ago and they had this amazing program called "All about Dung" or something like that.
It was shared in the program that in early Rome, people were accustomed to communal poo-ing and will share a common stick fixed with a 'sponge' to clean up -- hence the phrase "wrong end of the stick"!
It was also mentioned that King Louis X? (forgot which one) who had a phobia of eating in public but had no qualms doing his business in public while undertaking the important responsibility of conducting his official affairs -- hence the term "sitting on the throne".
There was another valuable nugget of information on the usefulness of poo. In rural India, a teacher came up with an ingenious solution to provide electricity to power lamps for his students. Pack cow dung with table salt in a container. Plonk in a disused battery and connect wires. Power flows! Wonderful.
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A lot of places in India, they collect the poo and dig a hole in ground, and allow for anaerobic digestion by bacteria.....which produces methane gas, and they piped the gas back to the kitchen for cooking.
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