10 Badass Superpowers Everybody Has

2. Your Kidneys Taste Your Pee

You don't just keep taste receptors in your mouth, you know. The specialized cells that help you detect what is ice cream and what is poison can actually be found all over the body.

These cells have been discovered in places such as your heart, spine, blood and even your kidneys. Let's just take a moment to be thankful for the fact that we don't actually experience the taste our kidneys sense in that same way that we do in our mouth, considering that our kidneys are mostly tasting our pee.

Each kidney contains around a million filters with around 1.3 litres of blood pushed through them every minute, and they can produce around 1.5 litres of urine in a day. Every single drop of this pee has to by 'tasted' by the kidneys to find out its chemical makeup and keep the rest of the body in balance.

It is thought that these taste and smell receptors all around the body are there to detect everything that goes in, out and around your system, sending signals to the brain to make adjustments as needed. These adjustments could either be "spit that out, it's poison" or "drink more water, the kidneys are telling me you're thirsty" (or "bleurgh, I'm so sick of tasting pee").