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# stinky

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This little girl is far too impressed by her own farts

Better out than your eye, we guess?

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Jan 1st 2016, 10:34 AM

Someone in England has been flushing piranhas down the toilet

Local residents had reported that something smelt fishy. No really, they did.

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Apr 8th 2014, 4:37 PM

You can detect almost a trillion more smells than previously thought

The misconception that humans can only smell 10,000 different odours was based on research from the 1920′s.

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Mar 20th 2014, 10:08 PM

Social Protection has spent almost €4,000 investigating office smells

2011 was particularly fragrant for the Department, conducting two ‘investigations of odour/smells’.

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Feb 3rd 2014, 6:30 AM