Sham S. Misri
Fun facts:
1. Birds do not pee at all. Their pee mixes with their poop,
sometimes turning it white.
2. Ancient Romans brushed their teeth with pee and also used
it as mouth wash. They thought pee kept teeth firm in their sockets and white.
3. Average pee time for girls is 80 seconds; and for boys it
is 45 seconds.
4. When bears hibernate during the winter, they never get up
to go pee in the forests. Their body simply reuses the fluids. That is what I
call "Holding it".
It is said that Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)was a famous
astronomer from Denmark who was very polite. It was customary not to get up
from the dinner table to pee until the meal was finished.Some people believe
that Tycho "held it" too long at the dinner table one night, and his bladder burst. Pee
is poisonous, and Tycho died of pee poisoning days later.
Inside our body there are very strong muscles. They keep the
digested food moving along.The muscles squeeze in a wave like motion so that
poop is always moving through the system.All along the journey of food the
digestive system has taken vitamins and water from the food, what is left over
is what scientists call "poop." About 1/3 of food one eats becomes
poop.About 1/4 of the poop
can be bacteria! It eats at the poop as it goes through the
intestines, and the bacteria leaves behind chemicals that make poop stink. The
more bacteria in the poop, the more it stinks. Some 'bile' from the gall
bladder helps break down fats which gives the poop a nice brownish -green
colour, and the body is ready for a very special poop delivery. Sometimes the
body fails to deliver the poop. What is wrong? The special delivery may never arrive if there is
not enough water in the body system. If the body id dehydrated, the poop will
dry out and slow down in the guts. Some people call it a plugged drain, a
logjam, or clogged plumbing.It si like dry plaster is inside thed body; it will
move slowly, and when it comes out, it will be hard and painful. If the poop
does not come out, try to jumping up and down, eating some prunes and drrinking
a lot of water to break up that plaster.
If the food you ate is not agreeing with you, something
weird happens;Your body tries to get it
out of you as soon as possible! Instead of water being taken 'from' the poop,
water is 'added' to it to make it run through your guts fast, like water
through a pipe.When it comes out the other end , we call it DIARRHEA!
Poop has several names, like, night soil, voodoo butter,
bowel movement,hazardous material,doody, doo-doo,caca, Lincoln logs,number two,
answering nature's call,unhitching a load, dropping kids off at the pool.
Historical poop removal! Scottish were the first people who
could go to the bathroom indoors. The earliest plumbing systems ever found are
in Scotland. They are 10,000 years old, and yes they still smell a bit.
Modern poop removal! When astronautsnd bust a grumpy into the outer space , the
poop is dried and brought back to Earth
for scientific analysis. The astronauts have to store it carefully ; they would
not want to see a dried log floating around in zero gravity.
Vultures enjoy eating rotting meat, but they worry about
standing upon a dead animal and getting their feet infected. To solve the
problem, they poop on their own feet before perching on a corpse. Apparently
vulture poop can kill even the toughest germs!
Even more disgusing item! Eating your own poop is pretty
nasty, but some animals do it; this is called 'coprophagy.' Beaver have a
fairly high fiber diet, and they have to
digest their food twice.Here is how it works. The beaver eats its food (tree
bark) and digests it. The beaver then poops it out. It looks like a gelatin
/oatmeal mix. What next? The beaver then eats its poop and digests it a second
time. When it comes out second time, it looks like a sawdust. Sawdust!
In historical times , getting rid of sewage was not always
done very well, as this 600-year old poem shows us;
In days of old, when knights were bold
And toilets had not been invented,
They laid their load by the side of the road
And went away contented.
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