smell, n.Trivia

Bees can be trained to detect explosives, illegal drugs, and even various diseases that affect humans.

Polar bears are able to smell a seal from 20 miles away

Ants can smell well --- better even than a dog.

Smelling is dietary --- smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.

Just the smell of coffee can have a placebo effect and increase feelings of focus and ambition.

Smelling is turned off when you sleep, even really bad or potent smells.

A smell is not weightless --- on average, a smell has a weight of 760 nanograms.

Honeybees can be trained to find landmines due to their keen sense of smell.

Ben from "Ben" & Jerry's has no sense of smell, which is why they put chunky ingredients in their ice cream.

The smell of doughnuts can increase blood flow to the genitals and stimulate an erect penis.

Slugs are good at smelling. They have four noses

scent branding and how businesses pump custom scents into their buildings. Nike's signature scent was reportedly inspired by the smell of a rubber basketball sneaker as it scrapes across the court and a soccer cleat in grass and dirt.

Some mole's can smell underwater by blowing bubbles with its nose and breathing back in the then scent charged air.

The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

Sharks are able sense a drop of blood from 2.5miles away

You can smell a skunk from a mile away

Skunks can spray their smelly fluid up to 16 feet.

Dolphins are unable to smell

Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators.

Rain's smell actually comes from plant oils, bacteria, and ozone.