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Chemistry has discovered more than they probably care to admit by accidentally licking things.

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Purposefully licking things.

Chemists of old were a bit less safety conscious than we are today. Tasting the chemicals you just made was just part of the job back then.

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Chemists of old were plenty safety conscious. Licking the science is what apprentices were for.

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We still like to sniff stuff. You’ve got some very sensitive chemoreceptors right on your face, might as well use them!

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very sensitive chemoreceptors

laughs in canine

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“Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?” is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.

EDIT: Michael Sveda’s discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937

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Mouth pipetting is a large part of this.

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Literally how we got aspartame. It started as an ulcer drug.

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Biology: Lick here… Yep, that’s the spot. Continue… Oh yeah, keep going. Uhhh…

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Human anatomy: you’re technically always licking it. And now you’re aware of it. Your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Touching your teeth.

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I always hate how well this works…

Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation

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The fuck did I do to you? Now I can feel my tongue and I don’t know how to breathe!

I hope you can hear your blinking for the rest of the day!

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I’ve heard that with enough lack of stimuli combined with enough concerted concentration, you can actually begin to feel your guts as they process food. Like, feeling the muscles contracting.

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Yes, and if you imitate a salt shaker over your tongue, you can taste the salt…

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Geography: You can try, but it’s gonna take you a while.

Cartography: “Would you not lick my maps, please?”

History: Fuck You.

Sociology: Allowed and encouraged in some fields, others… better not.

Economics: “Is Human Resources there?”

Medicine: “Next, please.” or “Don’t, please.”

Civil engineering: Go ahead, eat the dirt.

Law: Go to jail.

Political science: Could you please do this somewhere else?

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Electronics: Only the low voltage side.

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Lick the null and keep on with your life. Lick the phase and suffer. Lick two phases and die.

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You can always lick the ground or earth depending on where you live

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Mycology: “go ahead have a seat. Lick this one. It’ll be fun!”

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Certain tree frogs in the Amazon: while you’re at it, lick us too

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I want to make a joke about “that’s how you catch herpes”, but my brain is fried.

So I’ll just leave you with the knowledge that the Colorado River Toad is also psychedelic. and the Park Service really wants people to stop.

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