
Honey bees can sniff out landmines
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ben
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It turns out that honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines, by mixing sugar with small amount of TNT.
What struck me the most about this is that there are so many stimuli that surround us that we do not detect. What we can hear, see, smell, touch, and taste is just a fraction of what there is.
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