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What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by zirzedolta@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We do have metal in our veins. Blood has metallic taste precisely because of iron, which carries oxygen through our body.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Metal has no taste tho. What yr tasting is you. VSauce or Nilered did a video about it.

You can test it yourself, just degrease and wash a coin. Once clean, no taste.

[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Years upon years of being told this cannot make me not taste metal from stainless steel cups/canteens and forks, even brand new and/or freshly scrubbed to hell and back. I can't use stainless steel tumblers because of this - even if I keep my tongue well away from it, and it's the cleanest dish in the world, it makes the drink taste metallic. No amount of youtubers just insisting I don't/can't taste a thing can actually compete with a lifetime of experiencing this problem. And I have, multiple times, tried all the things they say to do to fix the "real" problem - but no. Steel tastes like steel, always.

Hypothesis: this is one of those things some people can taste and others can't, like how there's a whole group of "cilantro tastes like soap" people and everyone else is like ????

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course it is not free metal. Probably oxide. And no, I am not going to taste rust.