Why does pee come out in 2 streams?

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It makes a sort of helix and it’s weird.

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Because you don’t pee out of a circular hole. You pee out of a slit (yes, you, too). That slit has a top and a bottom. Sometimes, it’s been quite a while since you’ve peed, and if you ever pressed your lips together for a long time and felt that peeling sensation when you open them again, just understand that’s not something that only happens to lips. So, now you have a too stream and a bottom stream for a few moments. But, even after that, the rate of flow is *ever so slightly* different between the top and the bottom of the stream. It’s still bound by surface tension, so it has to pass through… itself, really… and that creates the helical effect.

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