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How to fix a smelly kitchen sink – clean the garbage disposal
by Marshall Brain | December 22, 2010
We’ve seen two other posts on smelly sinks: 1) Why does my bathroom stink? 2) Funny… and gross – a drain cleaner that actually works This one involves the kitchen. Here is how I discovered it… This weekend the kids and I were moving the fish to a new, bigger aquarium. And we needed to [...]
What if I told you that, when you meet a potential mate, that person smells “better” or “worse” to you based on the genetic makeup of their immune system? The funny thing is that this appears to be completely true, as vividly demonstrated in this video:
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The dearhearts at Weird World mentioned yesterday that over in Goa, India, former home of Jason Bourne and tropical paradise, there something in the air. We call this something the stench of rotting whale flesh. As you may know, once an organism dies its cells undergo a form of cannibalism called autolysis…
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