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What is something you can sense that few-if-any people you know can sense? Literal answers only.

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[โ€“] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't know what it is, but I can smell a somewhat metallic type smell on some specific people's breath. It always smells very similar between different people. They generally aren't very healthy, but no one seems to know what I'm talking about.

[โ€“] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean that combination of something rotten and something metallic? I occasionally pick that up in crowds and the smell is atrocious but nobody else around seems to ever acknowledge it

[โ€“] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

I haven't smelled it in a while, but I don't think I remember it smelling rotten. It wasn't pleasant but also wasn't really disgusting, it was just odd.

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