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Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan developed a way to extract vanillin, or vanilla fragrance and flavouring, from cow dung.

“She seems to claim if companies start using this method it might help with global warming because some of all the cow dung that causes problems in the atmosphere will start getting used,” Annals of improbable Research editor Marc Abrahams said.

So now you will understand why kids of the future will point at a heaping pile of cow poop on the road and they’ll jump up and down, screaming, “Mommy, I wanna eat that!”

That, and several other winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize.

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