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No Such Thing As A Fish
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The History of Methane in Space
A man created a special bean meal whereby he had you eat it. And then you farted into a sort of rectal catheter and it collected the farts. They said, we'll just give them less farty food in space. This is another fact sent in actually by someone called Dom Padon. It's a memoir of NASA in the 1960s. A terrible incident that happened at NASA was an accidental activation of the launch tower water deluge system. So they didn't know until this point that the detector could smell human farts. But it turned out to be gaseous emissions of robust Chrysler senior engineer.
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