Fun facts about giant squid #1: Not Tasty

(PHOTO: T YOUNG)

Everyone just loves a giant squid. Could be the whole Captain Nemo, mysterious whale-hunter of the deep dark oceans, the tentacles. Or the thought of one NEVER ENDING plate of calamari. Yum.

Anyways. A rather large squid has washed ashore in Australia, measuring some 26 feet long. But what piqued my interest most was the statement that giant squids are filled to the brim with ammonia, which they use as a buoyancy aid.

Nothing like a little Windex cooked right into your fried mollusk appetizer.