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Doesn’t everyone love useless facts? Wouldn’t your day just feel incomplete and empty without a few of these gems thrown in for good measure?

I was enjoying these, and it prompted me to think about all the other gross things in life that people eat, willingly, or not.

• An average woman consumes approximately 20 kg of lipstick in her life.
• Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
• Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.

While some people marvel at such delicasies as chocolate covered ants, grasshoppers and the like, other folks would view such things as the necessary evil to winning a few FearFactor bucks.

The photo at the right is from my number one pick for the site that illustrates the intent of this post best.

At a Beijing street market, these scorpion skewers were on display. Don’t believe people ate them? Check out the video below, with a hat tip to the traveler’s weblog for the information.

Here are some loopy links to some fun and perhaps disgusting things to eat or to do with food.

• Disgusting Food List
• Gross Me Out!
• Fun Facts About Gross Food
• Gadling.. The Traveler’s Weblog
• Gross Traditional Edibles
• Gross Things Found in Food
• Why People Eat Dirt
• Why People Eat Talcum Powder or Chalk
• Eat Worms – Feel Better
• Gross Supermarket Food

And finally… who says people are the only weird ones when it comes to culinary preferences? I’ve been shocked by learning that an aquaintance’s dog consumed the contents of her toddler’s poopy diaper while she was trying to complete the task and thought perhaps it was an isolated case of a dog with some, how shall we call it… issues? The following link has corrected me on that matter. My apologies to the pup.

So tell me.

What’s the grossest thing you’ve eaten?

Create a post on your own blog, link it here and ask your readers the same thing. It’ll be a veritable blog-party!

I’ll be sticking to the Margaritas, and probably passing on the hors doeuvres.

Source: http://www.stunning-stuff.com/list-funny-facts/6.html?pg=3