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2023-12-10 13:15:01 After brushing your teeth, food feels disgusting, why?

The foaming agent used in most toothpastes is to blame. Sodium lauryl sulfate weakens the taste buds that are responsible for sweet taste perception. Sodium lauryl sulfate also destroys phospholipids, which normally reduce bitterness.

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2023-12-09 11:37:01 Astronauts wear adult diapers with their spacesuit. It is worn by both male and female astronauts.

Adult diapers is worn by astronauts during liftoff, landings, spacewalks, and extra-vehicular activities in which making it to a bathroom simply isn't possible.

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2023-12-06 11:20:38 There is a bank in Italy that keeps
cheese instead of money.

Credito Emiliano, a bank in northern Italy that accepts cheese as collateral for a loan. It has done so since 1953.

#Places

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2023-12-04 08:30:20 There is a university in Britain that teaches students prostitution.

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2023-12-03 12:10:22 In some cultures, ants were used to stitch wounds.

They would hold the skin together, grab an ant with big jaws (like an army or leaf-cutter ant), put its mouth to the wound and wait for it to bite down

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2023-12-01 15:05:13 After childbirth, without consent from the patient, doctors sometimes do an extra stitch to tighten the vagina called "the husband stitch".

This procedure takes place after delivery to decrease the size of a woman's vaginal opening. It is an outdated procedure that has no approved medical use or benefit.

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2023-11-30 13:05:01 A while back on Reddit, somebody asked a question "If kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy, how hard do I have to slap a chicken to cook it?"⁠

Though it clearly is a funny question, it's also sort of the best question the Internet has ever heard. A physics major Parker Ormonde, did the exact math: caluclated & answered 23,034 slaps can cook a chicken.

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2023-11-29 15:46:00 Human testicles have taste buds that can detect sweet flavors, and they're essential for reproduction.

Scientists say that, despite being a long way from the mouth, taste receptors on the testicles and anus can also detect the savory taste of umami - the amino acid in soy sauce.

#Humans

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2023-11-28 08:31:08 Scientists have invented an injectable oxygen that lets you survive without breathing.

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2023-11-27 15:31:00 The longest prison sentence ever was given to Chamoy Thipyaso, a Thai woman who defrauded 16,000 people in a pyramid scheme which netted her more than $200 million.

In 1989, a judge sentenced her to an astonishing 141,078 years for corporate fraud.

#People

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