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Pee Is Stored in the Balls is a satirical factoid falsely claiming that men hold urine within their testicles. Online, the phrase is typically used as a humorous caption in various image macros.

Origin

On April 5th, 2012, Twitter user @rad_milk^[9] posted a tweet saying "apparently theres no such thing as a bladder & pee is stored in the balls" (shown below).

Spread

On December 4th, 2013, Twitter user @J_M_Cook^[1] tweeted the question "Is pee stored in the balls? #BonerQuestions" (shown below). The following day, the tweet was included in an article titled "What's the Deal With Boners" on the women's interest site Cosmopolitan.^[2]

Also on December 5th, 2013, model Christine Teigen tweeted the question, which gathered upwards of 5,000 likes and 2,400 retweets over the next four years.^[6]

On May 13th, 2014, Redditor BottomOfTheBarrel submitted a post asking about the phrase to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[3]

On March 29th, 2017, Twitter user @cushbomb tweeted a joke about urine being stored "in the balls" (shown below).

On August 22nd, 2017, Instagram user aynalswag^[4] posted a photograph of Winston Churchill with the fake quote "Pee is stored in the balls" (shown below, left). On September 18th, the Short Nigga Memes Facebook page posted a picture of a Guy Fawkes Mask captioned with "pee is stored in the balls" (shown below, right).

On September 26th, the "Pee is stored in the balls" Facebook^[5] page was created. On October 23rd, Redditor RazorJakeNWO posted a Snapple Facts photoshop with the message "Pee is stored in the balls" (shown below, left). Within one week, the post gained over 3,500 points on /r/dankmemes^[7] (97% upvoted). On October 30th, Redditor Sweeney49 posted a photograph of Canadian actor Finn Wolfhard with the caption "If pee is stored in the balls, does that mean girls don't pee?" to /r/dankmemes^[8] (shown below, right).

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