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”).

Open government just got TOO open

A Texas councilman in Georgetown excused himself from a meeting, and forgot to turn off his mic. Pick this up at 0:44:

The "Preface" is the very start of a book.

But this typo makes the preface of The Vocabulary of East Anglia by Robert Forby (1830) something else completely! (Via.) peeface

Are you ever out golfing when you feel the need to pee?

If so, you're lucky if you have a Uroclub in your golf bag!

IMPORTANT SCIENCE NEWS

Did you know that astronauts drink their own recycled urine? They have to! Where else are they going to get water?

Anyway, the International Space Station (ISS) is going to get a new coffee-maker. And its nickname is the ISSpresso.

But since the coffee maker's water will come from recycled urine, I think they should call it the PISSpresso.

BOOM Urine joke!

And hey, if a British astronaut collects the pee for another pot of coffee, he’d be "taking the piss”! (That’s British slang for “teasing/fooling someone.”) 

India has a problem with men who pee in public.

And now, it has a solution!

Peeing in Paris in the 1800s

No, that's not the title of a new musical film. It describes these outdoor stalls that French men could pee in back in 1875!

It would be sort of weird to use those, though.

"Good morning, Jacques.""Good morning!" *tries to go*"Hi Jacques!""Hello!" *tries to go*"Mommy, look at that man go wee-wee!""Oh, forget it." *zip*

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.

How much pee in the pool is fatal?

You may have known that pee combined with chlorine makes a toxic byproduct. So peeing in a chlorine pool actually is unhealthy. But how unhealthy? Like, could it kills you?

The good scientists at arstechnica tried to figure that out. Here’s what they calculated:

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If you and three million other people could get at this pool and unload your pee into it before your bodies melted, before the crowd crushed you to death, and before you drowned from the massive tidal wave of pee... yes, you could feasibly die of cyanogen chloride poisoning originating from chlorinated water and pee. 

Wow. I'm only swimming in lakes and oceans from now on. Oh wait, fish pee... darn it!

Stupid leprechauns!

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Who does peeing in the pool hurt? EVERYONE!

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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!