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Facon

Facón
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About Facon

A facón is a fighting and utility knife widely used in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay as the principal tool and weapon of the gaucho of the South American pampas.

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You can smell danger. Okay. Everyone has this ability, or most people do. Volunteers who couldn't tell the difference between two similar smells, so it's like bacon and bacon-y smell. Facon. Facon. Yeah. Bacon and faken. Then if they were given an electric shock from one of them, then not the other one, then later they could distinguish the two different smells because they remembered the electric shock that they had.

from No Such Thing As A Bacon Telescope, 2015-07-31 at 00:18:07 · read transcript

Other times Facon came up

  1. Your fact is, scientists have invented algae that tastes like bacon. Brilliant. Facon. Facon. It exists, right?

    Little Fish: Chromosomes are coming home, 2026-07-12 · listen

  2. Brilliant. Facon. Facon. It exists, right? Yeah.

    Little Fish: Chromosomes are coming home, 2026-07-12 · listen

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