Salt: a mineral so nice that much of early human civilization was based on its procurement! Now we put big chunks of it on tasty pretzels at the mall!
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[Truth or Fail]
Lake Peigneur
https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/sinkhole-swallowed-11-barges/
Brinacles
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/underwater-brinicles.htm
Salt Hotel
[Fact Off]
Coconut water IV
http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/12/5144
https://podcasts.ufhealth.org/can-coconut-water-mimic-human-plasma/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675700900627
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK154437/
Salt flats for satellite calibration
https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/172/1/31/2081107
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071130/full/news.2007.315.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Salt in a wound history
https://books.google.com/books?id=29gV_kCmZrIC&pg=PA141
https://www.abc.net.au/life/will-sea-water-help-heal-open-sores/11279036
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abestwa8t.html
Saline solution
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4794509/
Nociception
https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s2/chapter06.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK32659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903433/
[Butt One More Thing]
Rectal salt glands
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1541076?seq=1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216465/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00364827.1963.10410275?journalCode=ssar20