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“Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.”

SOURCE: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/drinksw.html

parent delightful 5 years ago

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