Did you ever wonder where paleontologists — who are out in the field all day digging up dinosaur bones — go to poop?
Well, wonder no more; they rely on a portable porter pot like this one.
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According to Mike Rowe, when scientists are sitting on the toilet in the field, they read "magazines about the earth and stuff like that."
Clearly.
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Mike Rowe traveled to Mobile, Ala., to work with the Knights of Revelry, a 137-year-old secret society that makes cow bladders every year for their "Folly" float in the Mobile Mardi Gras parade.
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The cow bladders — primarily male beef cow ones — are purged and trimmed as preparation to their inflation.
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The bladder is a very sturdy organ.
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In Sioux Falls, S.D., Mike Rowe learned the medical-waste treatment and disposal business.
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Certain materials, especially sharp and blood-contaminated items (like needles or scalpels), can't just go to a landfill; they need to be treated first.
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Mike Rowe feeds waste to Miss Piggy (so called because she "eats a lot").
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In case you ever wondered, that logo is the universal biohazard symbol — which extends beyond just nuclear material (as Mike Rowe — and we'd — thought).
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