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Most pooped
Higher is worse. #1 is the one people disapprove of most.
Whether it reads as citrus or as soap is partly genetic: a variant near a cluster of smell receptor genes tracks with the soapy reading.
Bred to be less bitter over recent decades, which is why they divide people by age as much as by taste.
Only the females bite. The diseases they carry make the mosquito the deadliest animal on earth for humans.
Ham and pineapple, and it comes from Ontario rather than Hawaii — the name was taken from the brand of canned pineapple used.
A by-product of brewing beer. The leftover yeast gets concentrated into a spread, and the original factory bought it from the breweries next door.
Income comes from brands rather than from the audience, which is the fact that shapes everything else about the role.
Mint and chocolate together. The split between people who want this and people who describe it as toothpaste is close to even.
Snoozing restarts a sleep cycle that cannot finish, which is why waking the second time often feels worse.
Built on the dembow rhythm, a single repeating drum pattern that almost every track shares.
Mixed workouts scored against the clock, with the format announced late so nobody can train for the exact test.
Banned on the Singapore metro for its smell, with a fine attached. The taste, confusingly, is closer to custard.
Written for business accounting in wordy, English-like sentences. Still moving money in banks and government systems today.
Pulls water out of the air by condensing it on a cold coil, which also warms the room slightly.
Most protected
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Smells in stereo. Each nostril samples separately, which is how a dog works out which direction a smell came from.
Valencian, and the original is a land dish: rabbit, chicken and beans, no seafood. Never stirred, because the crust that forms underneath is the point.
The scales, and the only zodiac symbol that is an object rather than a creature. Air, ruled by Venus, and famously undecided.
Named after Hamburg, not after ham. German emigrants took the city's minced beef steak to America with them.
Began in Southeast Asia as a way of preserving fish: rice was fermented around it and then thrown away. Eating the rice came much later.
Guitar, bass and drums as the core lineup. Broad enough that half the genres on this list started inside it.
Started as a fermented fish sauce in Asia and only became a tomato product much later.
Moves heat outside rather than creating cold, which is why the unit outdoors blows warm air.
Digests bamboo with the gut of a carnivore, which is why it has to eat for most of its waking hours.
A rodent the size of a large dog, semi-aquatic, and unusually tolerant of other species sitting on it.
Tracks who owns each piece of memory at compile time, so whole classes of crashes stop being possible. The compiler argues back.
JavaScript with a type checker bolted on top. The types vanish when it compiles, so nothing survives to runtime to catch you.
Only the male has the train, and what looks like a tail is actually the feathers above it.
