Amazing Facts about Urine in English
Interesting facts about urination
Urination is a better way to remove what our body does not need. Can you tell why a pregnant woman has to urinate frequently, or do you know the treatment for burning sensation during urination? No, so let’s find out today.
Interesting Facts About Peeing 1 – 10
1. Our urine collection bag can only store 2.5 cups i.e. 400 to 600 mL urine. Whereas the elephant’s pouch can hold up to 50 litres.
2. An average person goes to urinate 7 times a day and produces approximately 6.3 cups of urine, it depends on your diet.
3. Urine comes out of the body through a tube called “Urethra”. In women, the length of this tube is only 1.2 to 1.6 inches, whereas in men its length is up to 8 inches.
4. If you are urinating somewhere in your dream, then there is a high chance that you will urinate on the bed itself.
5. Urine contains about 3000 components – it contains a mixture of 95% water, 2.5% urea and 2.5% salt, hormones and some nutrients.
6. In your entire lifetime, your kidneys convert about 10 lakh gallons (37 lac litre) of water into urine, which is equivalent to a small lake.
7. If you ever get lost in the desert without water, don’t drink your urine.. because it contains so much salt that instead of quenching your thirst, it will further dehydrate your body. This is why soldiers in the American Army are strongly advised not to drink urine under any circumstances.
8. Cat urine glows even in the dark because it contains phosphorus which starts glowing when it comes in contact with oxygen.
9. Urine is also used in making medicines like:- Urokinese medicine, which helps in preventing blood clotting during heart attack.
10. A young man produces so much hydrogen through urine in one year, which is enough to drive a car 2698km.
Interesting facts about urination 11 – 20
11. 3% of the total ice frozen in the glaciers of Antarctica is penguin urine.
12. It is impossible to give blood and urinate at the same time.
13. NASA has created a machine that turns the urine of astronauts into potable water and this water is purer than America’s tap water.
14. It is true that urine does not contain bacteria but only as long as it remains in the bladder. As soon as it comes in contact with the urethra or air, bacteria get absorbed into it.
15. Due to the internal temperature of our body, our urine becomes hot and in winter it even starts emitting steam.
16. Treatment of burning sensation during urination: Drinking thin buttermilk (lassi) mixed with a pinch of soda relieves burning sensation during urination.
17. Men’s sex time gets reduced by urinating while standing, but those who urinate while sitting have more sex time. Because by urinating while standing, the bladder is not emptied properly and due to this happening again and again, the prostrate gland starts getting damaged.
18. If some urine comes out while laughing, sneezing or exercising, then it is called “Stress Urinary Incontinence”.
19. A pregnant woman has to urinate frequently because as the fetus grows, it reduces the size of the bladder so that less urine can be stored in it.
20. Women should urinate after sex, because bacteria are already present in the vagina of women, which during sex reach the bladder through the urethra tube, which increases the risk of infection. lives.
Interesting facts about urination 21 – 30
21. About 200 years ago, European women used to urinate while standing because they wore long dresses and had no underpants underneath.
22. Every year in Canada, about 225 people slip their feet and drown while standing on a boat to urinate.
23. Spies in ancient Rome used urine as invisible ink to write secrets across documents. These messages were visible only when they were heated.
24. Bears never urinate when they hibernate, even if it lasts for six months. During hibernation, the bear’s body converts urine into protein and uses it as food.
25. Fighter aircraft pilots wear something called a “piddle-pack”, which resembles a bag to urinate.
26. Snakes do not have a bag to collect urine, so as soon as they produce urine, it comes out immediately.
27. Ancient Romans used urine to clean their teeth.
28. In the 1930s, Penicillin was so valuable, it was even extracted from patients’ urine.
29. Around 1950, doctors used to inject a woman’s urine into a frog to find out whether she was pregnant or not. If the frog produced eggs within 24 hours of the injection, the woman was considered pregnant.
30. The world record for longest continuous urination is 508 seconds i.e. 8.5 minutes whereas a healthy human being urinates in only 7 seconds.
Interesting facts about urination 31 – 40
31. The record for squirting urine to the longest distance is in the name of “Joey Wallace” of Arizona. His urine stream went up to a distance of 14 feet 1 inch.
32. 45% (1 out of 2) people urinate while bathing under fountains and about 20% (1 out of 5) people urinate while bathing in swimming pools. Redness of eyes while bathing in swimming pool is due to the mixture of urine and chlorine.
33. You will be surprised to know that birds have only one clue to urinate and defecate. But they urinate in solid form. If you ever look carefully at the lettering of chickens, pigeons etc., you will see something white in it and that is their urine.
34. India’s PM Morarji Desai once drank his own urine.
35. During the Second World War, soldiers were advised to tie a cloth soaked in urine over their mouth to protect themselves from chlorine gas.
36. There will soon be a law in the country ‘Sweden’ according to which men will always have to urinate while sitting in public toilets.
37. Many people have “Shy Bladder Syndrome”, due to which they feel shy to urinate in the open and sometimes they are not able to urinate in the open, they feel that someone is watching them. In the language of science, this fear is called “Paruresis”.
38. ‘Phosphorus’ was discovered by heating urine. In fact, in 1669, Germany’s ‘Hennig Brand’ heated 60 buckets of urine to extract gold. He believed that urine was yellow, so it might contain precious metal. But when it was heated, in the end there was something left which glowed in the dark and it was named phosphorus.
39. Semen and urine can never come out simultaneously from a man’s body. Because during the release of semen, due to the contraction of a muscle, the passage to the urinary bladder gets closed and it remains closed for some time even after the release of semen. Sometimes try to urinate immediately after sex or masturbation, you will know everything. This is the reason why urine and sperm cannot come out from the penis at the same time. But if there is a little excitement before urinating, then a watery white liquid also falls from the penis along with urine. Actually, this is not semen but it is called ‘pre-cum’. It contains dead sperm and a woman cannot get pregnant from it.
40. Remove this thing from your mind that girls urinate through their vagina, rather there are two holes in their vagina, one for urinating and the other only for sex. The pee clue is slightly above the sex clue.