Strange Facts About Urine

Eating Asparagus will make your pee smell funny - stronger. This is because the constituents of asparagus are metabolized and secreted in urine, creating that stronger odor. The onset of this odor is quick, and often occurs within 15-30 minutes of ingestion.

Only 40% of people though, have the genes to smell this odor!

A nice cold drink of... urine? Although urine is sterile and made up mostly of water there are many trace amount of other chemicals and it is not recommended to drink it because of this fact. These trace chemicals give it the salty taste, but if you are generally a healthy person free of disease than tasting your urine will not harm you.

Recently there has been a product developed that enables women to pee like men, standing up. This product is inserted into the vagina and the woman is able to pee, standing! Feminism at its best!

Urine Therapy? This is the application of urine to your body to solve all of your bodily woes such as massaging it into the skin, or ingesting it. The definition of "urine therapy" is using your urine to benefit your health. It has been claimed to alleviate itching, and an anti-cancer precaution as well as throat aches. There are certain rules to engaging in urine therapy. Urine should be sipped, not guzzled and it should be midstream urine - first thing in the morning. While using urine therapy, you should also drink plenty of water and avoid salty foods.

There are 45.2% of people that pee in the shower. There are 44.9% of people who pee in the ocean and there are 28.1% of people who pee in the pool.
When you have to go to the bathroom, you should go to the bathroom. There have been instances when people have been "holding it" that they have died! There has been one recent case of a woman in a radio contest trying to win a Nintendo Wii that held her pee and than did not even win the contest - and she died! If your bladder gets too full than theoretically it can back the liquid into your kidneys, and this could be harmful to you even potentially fatal.

Cat urine will glow under a black light - Although, I have not seen this before, it would be interesting!