The Truth About Asparagus and Your Pee
An astonishing amount of research has gone into the question of whether asparagus really makes your urine smell funny. Sci Show explains it all inside! Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Like...
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[Intro] You've probably never smelled a skunk and wished that you could reproduce that lovely odor with your own bodily fluids, but if you're among a certain 40% of humans, you actually kind of can. All you gotta do is eat some asparagus, wait a little bit, and then pee on your enemies. Asparagus is a weird little vegetable, it's a monocot, meaning that its seeds start out with only one leaf, and it's related to onions and garlic. Its flowers are actually poisonous to humans, but the stems have plenty of nutrients in them, like vitamin K and vitamin C, and since as far back as the 1890s, scientists have been trying to figure out why it makes peoples' pee smell like, you know, just different, maybe a little worse than usual. Of course, al...
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[Intro] You've probably never smelled a skunk and wished that you could reproduce that lovely odor with your own bodily fluids, but if you're among a certain 40% of humans, you actually kind of can. All you gotta do is eat some asparagus, wait a little bit, and then pee on your enemies. Asparagus is a weird little vegetable, it's a monocot, meaning that its seeds start out with only one leaf, and it's related to onions and garlic. Its flowers are actually poisonous to humans, but the stems have plenty of nutrients in them, like vitamin K and vitamin C, and since as far back as the 1890s, scientists have been trying to figure out why it makes peoples' pee smell like, you know, just different, maybe a little worse than usual. Of course, al...
