It's very important that you read this story from "Iceland Magazine"

Here's the lead—finish the rest of it here!

Shampoo made of cow urine based on an old Icelandic tradition 

Icelandic entrepreneurs are now marketing shampoo with cow urine as one of its ingredients. Women soaking their hair in cow urine was a common practice in Iceland for centuries when soap was a far fetched luxury. It was believed to work miracles on the hair, leaving it revitalised and shining. 

The new hair soap is called Q Shampoo (Q literally sounds in Icelandic like the Icelandic word for a cow “kú”).

National Public Radio has serious gas

Over at NPR, they recently ran a piece about how microbes in your gut can keep you healthy. In it, they talk about food, gas, and the fact that most people fart about 18 times a day.

This led to a slew of different comments from listeners and readers... they were so good, I've included some of them below!

I am totally going to send this to my wife. “See honey, I poot because I'm healthy! I am not in fact, as you say, 'dying inside.'”            
                  


“A healthy individual can have up to 18 flatulences per day and be perfectly normal.” I'm going to start counting.

               
You have 18 per hour.” (My wife talking about me)

                  


If someone goes over their daily allotment at your office, maybe you can institute a “cork and trade” system.

 “Get the de-fiberlators - we've got a Code 19.”
               
You still don't need to fan the covers when you do it”- Every wife everywhere
                     

                

There was a time when I had very caustic gas that regularly burned holes in my cotton underwear. Amusing but expensive . . .
      
Funny how every comment is about how men fart and women don't, and how husbands everywhere are rejoicing. Interesting to see social pressures at work - men feel comfortable farting at any time, women feel pressured to politely hide it, and get treated as unwomanly if they don't. Yet both of us fart just as much, hahaha

               
Yeah I was thinking the same thing as I scrolled through the comments. I'm a woman, and I fart just as much as my boyfriend. We've always accepted each other completely, farts and all. Part of being human! I'm done with pretending to be polite.
       


               
My mother always quoted a ditty she learned from her mother, on this subject, so some women weren't embarrassed to let it all out: “Better to fart and bear the shame, than hold in it and bear the pain.”

Want to make 38 million gallons of "waste water"? Pee for 40 days!

So here in Portland, we've got these big water reservoirs in a park to the city's east. They're on Mt. Tabor, which is the only volcano within the city limits of a major U.S. metro region.

Why am I boring you with this? Because Portland's going to flush 38 million gallons of water from one of these reservoirs after a dude peed in it.

But how much water can a person pee? A quart? Mix that in with 38 million gallons and... it's gone, right. Plus, pee is sterile—no germs! So why waste all that water?

"It's the conservative but correct decision," said Nick Fish the guy in charge of the Water Bureau. Yes, a guy named Fish is in charge of water.

Smart person Laura Helmuth looked at the Environment Protection Agency’s rules about clean water. She wanted to know how “poisoned” the pee actually made the reservoir. Her finding:

How many times would that teenager have to pee in a Portland reservoir to produce a [dangerous] urine concentration? About 3,333 times. 

But of course urine is 95% water… That means he’d have to urinate 166,666 times ... to approach that of the EPA’s limit for nitrates in drinking water. Since most animals, including idiot teenaged show-offs, take about 21 seconds to urinate, that means he’d have to urinate constantly for 3,500,000 seconds, or about 40 days.

Who does peeing in the pool hurt? EVERYONE!

Via.

I never thought it was THAT big of a deal to pee in the pool. Not that I ever did it! 

But a new study finds that peeing in the pool IS a big deal if the pool uses chlorine and other chemicals. Apparently the uric acid in urine mixes with chlorine to make a two new chemicals: cyanogen chloride and thrichloramine.

And guess what? Those two chemicals are bad for your heart, lungs, and central nervous system.

So I have two words of advice to anyone who’s reading this while swimming: HOLD IT!