What were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong?

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SnappDragon10@lemmy.today

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2 months ago

You don’t actually smell burnt toast when having a stroke.

Joked about it to my roommate who was in med school once that “I might be having a stroke, or someone burnt their toast again.” To which he responded “WTH are you talking about?”

So I explained the meme and he debunked it for me right there haha

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CulturedLout@lemmy.ca

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2 months ago

If you’re talking about the Heritage Minutes ad about Dr. Penfield, she had epilepsy, it wasn’t a stroke. Smelling burnt toast was a precursor to her seizures.

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RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world

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2 months ago

There’s also a scene in Saving Private Ryan where a dying soldier talks about smelling the bread from back home.

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SSTF@lemmy.world

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2 months ago

But phosgene does smell like freshly cut grass. “Phosgene smells green!”, kids.

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