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[Trivia Question]
Horace Wells and Nitrous Oxide/Laughing Gas
[Fact Off]
History of the storage/transportation of gas (cylinders, gas holders, bamboo)
https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/natural_gas_basics.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/0471238961.0701190519160509.a01
https://www.apga.org/apgamainsite/aboutus/facts/history-of-natural-gas
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24969284
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_2603
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/349362
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/professional_theses/147/
https://www.nortegas.es/en/our-business/distribution-of-natural-gas/history-of-natural-gas/
Canaries to detect carbon monoxide in mines & resuscitating them with oxygen
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/story-real-canary-coal-mine-180961570/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Fart/flatus noises from anal sphincter
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8601379/
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19545944/fart-noises/
https://flatology.com/consider-the-sphincter/
https://urogynecology.nm.org/anal-incontinence.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Snake cloacal popping
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/377052
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