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Can breathing that “after the rain” clean smell actually kill you?

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There’s nothing like the way the air smells after a desert thunderstorm. It seems so clean. Connoisseurs tend to breathe in as much as they can. But what exactly are they breathing, anyway? Oh, just something that can do “terrible damage to the lungs, splitting open cells and causing them to leak enzymes.”

[Photo by Rennett Stowe via Flickr.]

https://gizmodo.com/what-really-causes-that-amazing-after-the-rain-smell-1167869568

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