• Mycatiskai
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    1 month ago

    The burnt toast is likely a mistaken reference to a Canadian Heritage Minute about an epileptic woman who smelled burnt toast when she had seizures. A pioneering neurosurgeon kept his patients awake while probing their exposed brain to find and burn out malfunctioning nerves. It is actually epilepsy not a stroke that the burnt toast thing is associated with, not that everyone with epilepsy smells burnt toast, that was just the famous one that most Canadians of a certain age will know.

    Here it is for anyone curious. https://youtu.be/pUOG2g4hj8s

    Edit: tracking bit removed from link.

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        1 month ago

        That’s good to know. So everything after and including the ? is not needed?

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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          Exactly, that’s their tracking parameter. I like to remove them because, for whatever reason, I find it odd for Google to know that you are the one sharing a video with me.

          I like sharing that info with you! 😉

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      Yep, not a myth just a misremembering/misassocation.