
20. It’s A Smelly Smell That Smells…Smelly
Our nose is extremely useful and helps us with a lot of different things. The way something smells can help dictate how you might operate with it. This happens often with food as well as other things. People who have a bad sense of smell may have an easier time working with smellier things or even smellier people.
However, the normal human nose can recognize up to 1 trillion different overall smells. Yet we can remember up to around 50,000 of those. This is likely due to smelling something more often. If you eat muffins all the time, you’ll know the smell they have versus something like a dead rat, for example. One is clearly going to be around you more or less, so it makes sense.