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To: d:oug who wrote (12304)	11/15/1999 5:52:00 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

(off topic) Genetics had divided the world into stinkers and nonstinkers. In 1891 a scientist named "Nencki"...convinced four guys to eat seven kilograms of asparagus (that's about three and a half pounds each). He collected the pertinent pee ... as your body metabolizes asparagus, it produces this smelly chemical, which your discriminating kidneys see fit to dump into the bladder. ... 22 percent of survey respondents experience asparagus pee. Early investigators thought genetics had divided the world into stinkers and nonstinkers. That was until 1980, when three researchers waved pee from the nonstinkers under the noses of the stinkers. Lo and behold, the problem proved to be one not of producing the stinky pee but of being able to sniff it out. If you've been deprived of this gift... Copyright ¸ 1997 Discovery Communications, Inc.