Try Audible free! http://audible.com/brainfood Or text: brainfood to 500-500 If you happen to like our→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: Some refer to the rock-like substance as “floating gold” because of its hue and value. (For reference, 175 pound, 79 kg, lump of it was recently found floating off the coast of Qurayat, netting the fishermen who found it a cool $3 million when they sold it at auction.) Others call it “ambergris,” derived from the Old French “ambre gris,” meaning “grey amber.” But perhaps the most accurate way to describe the prized, rare, hard lumpy substance found floating in oceans and washed up on beaches worldwide is excrement- whale excrement, to be exact. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/08/people-eat-whale-poop/ Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zabdiel-Boylston http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/laws/esa/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-taste-of-edible-feces-111178660/ http://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/06/26/what-is-ambergris-and-what-the-hell-is-it-doing-in-my-cocktail-glass/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120830-ambergris-charlie-naysmith-whale-vomit-science/ https://books.google.com/books?id=F0CKIxwLT-oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Floating+Gold:+A+Natural+(and+Unnatural)+History+of+Ambergris&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6xamC4_LTAhULJ8AKHSHaB8UQ6AEIIzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/whale-vomit-10-things-you-1566526 http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-search-of-ambergris-a-highly-prized-slurry-of-squid-beaks-and-whale-feces https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-whale-waste-is-valuable/ http://www.sciencealert.com/fisherman-have-just-found-a-us-3-million-lump-of-whale-vomit http://lajamjournal.org/index.php/laja