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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Yep, not a myth just a misremembering/misassocation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a wild experiment! Thanks for sharing

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Snipping that Daddy Google tracker at end of URL

https://youtu.be/pUOG2g4hj8s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

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! 😉