The word ‘urine’ is from the Latin urina, which is from the variant of the Proto-Indo-European root awer, meaning ‘to moisten, flow.’
The scientific name for urination is micturition. Urination is also called voiding, peeing, weeing, pissing, and emiction.
Urine is 95% water, 2.5% urea, and 2.5% of other mixtures of minerals, salts, and enzymes.
Urine is either dark or light yellow, depending on the amount of water in it. Urine can turn neon bright if a person consumes a lot of Vitamin B. Beets, rhubarb, and blackberries can turn it reddish brown.
The kidneys form urine by removing waste materials, salts, and other substances from the blood and sending them out of the body. Kidneys produce urine continuously, regardless if a person is sleeping or awake.
In many Muslim countries, both men and women sit or squat to pee. They think standing up to urinate is something dogs, not humans, do.
The average child urinates six times a day.
Urine was used by drug companies to make medicine — for example, urokinese, which helped dissolve the blood clots that caused heart attacks.
Urine therapy, or drinking one’s own urine, is very popular in several countries.
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