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Why Do We Sometimes Like To Smell Stinky Things?
When a corpse flower named Trudy bloomed last weekend, more than a thousand people lined up for a whiff of its “magnificent stink.” The giant blossom smells like a heady mix of rotting fish, sewage, and dead bodies. It’s meant to draw flies, but just as surely, it draws tourists.
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Smell is a funny thing. I used to work at a waste water plant and always said the smell wasn't that bad bit poopy diaper smell can make me gag. Another is blue cheese. I like to smell it and make a sour face, but put it on my steak. Just have to sneak it past my nose.
I read somewhere that smell is the sense we can recall the most.