If you think poop is dirty and worthless, then you are wrong, in fact there are millions of dollars worth of “poop”, and some are even used as flavorings to produce. perfume. The most expensive stools in the world, 80kg pellets worth 3 million USD.
Lloyds Bank Fossil Division
In 1972, to build a new branch of Lloyds Bank in Yorkshire, England, construction workers dug up a 20cm long and 5cm wide human faeces fossil.
Historians say the poop dates back to the 9th century, under Viking rule, but they also stress that its owner had intestinal problems and may not have gone. spent in a few days.
The main food of the “father” of this dung is meat and bread. The fecal fossil currently costs ,000, however, it has not been sold and is currently housed in the Viking History Museum.
Brazilian bird droppings
Brazilian Guano coffee is another expensive coffee made from animal waste, similar to mink coffee. As the name implies, this coffee is made from the droppings of wild birds in Brazil.
Local farmers will find undigested coffee beans in the droppings of wild birds in Brazil. This type of fecal coffee is considered the “noble” ingredient in the coffee world and costs £700 per kilogram (equivalent to VND21 million/kg).
Elephant dung
The excrement of elephants living in Thailand’s Golden Triangle is used to make one of the most expensive coffees in the world, also known as black ivory coffee – made from coffee beans extracted from elephant dung.
In 2012, a pound of black ivory coffee sold for 0 and a cup sold for .
The manufacturer says that the black ivory coffee has a unique taste, not bitter because the coffee beans have been acidified in the elephant’s stomach. Its flavor is also altered by sugar cane, bananas and other foods that elephants eat.
It is known that elephant dung can also make a beer – Un, Kono Kuro, this beer is only available in Japan and it sold out in minutes, after posting an advertisement on the company’s website. Beer is also known as Un, Kono Kuro, a play on Japanese words, meaning black and made from poop.
Fecal fossils more than 1 m long
In 2012, an unknown man dug up a 102-centimeter-long golden-brown fossil of an unidentified ancient creature, unearthed in the Toledo area of Washington, DC.
Perhaps this super-giant lump of feces is from 6-33 million years old. In 2014, this ancient fecal fossil was auctioned for ,370.
However, critics have suggested that it is a fossil that looks like poop, but it is not really a fossilized lump. They think it could be a volcanic ash material that turned into clay after falling into a swamp.
Ambergris – sperm whale droppings
In 2016, three fishermen in the Kingdom of Oman found 80 kilograms of sperm whale droppings, worth the equivalent of million. In the same year, a couple in the UK discovered a similar piece of feces but weighed only 1.57 kilograms and sold for ,000.
It is known that humans have been using ambergris for more than 1,000 years. Today, they are considered an important raw material for the production of high-class perfumes.
Ambergris usually hardens when exposed to sunlight, air and sea water.
Ambrein fragrance is the main component of ambergris – sperm whale droppings, this substance works to keep the scent of perfume on the skin for many hours, in addition, this substance also stimulates libido in mice. .
In fact, the chance to find ambergris is extremely rare as there are only about 200,000 sperm whales left in the world. Because the sperm whale is an endangered species, ambergris is banned in the US, but it is still highly valued in many countries such as France.