If You Don't Stumble Upon Whale Vomit, You Could Sell Your Japanese Foghorn
There are some unusual things that are worth some money, and some interesting thing people are trying to sell.
Recently, on an English coastline, a man who was walking his dog made a valuable discovery. No metal detector needed for this one. In this case, it was a pile of whale vomit, according to this story reported by the BBC, which also said that the man could earn more than $50,000 for it. Apparently the regurgitation is quite valuable to the perfume industry. Called Ambergis, savingstuff.com ranked it in its list of "strange stuff worth more than you imagine." Other items on its list included Kopi luwak (the most expensive coffee in the world, and you might recall, a running joke in "The Bucket List"), bird spit and trilobite fossils. Get looking. Recently, thepennyhoarder.com updated its wildly popular "7 More Weird Things in Your Trash Can …
