SciShow | Is It Gross to Blow out Birthday Candles?

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Episode Title: Is It Gross to Blow out Birthday Candles?
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Description: Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-14 A certain viral video may have brought it to your attention that blowing out candles on a birthday cake might be gross, but exactly how gross depends on who’s blowing the candles out. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jfr/article/view/67217 https://people.com/politics/mitt-romney-blows-out-birthday-candles-reaction/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/birthday-candle-bacteria/534987/ https://dhss.delaware.gov/dph/files/airbornetranspi.pdf https://www.today.com/food/birthday-cake-candles-danger-spreading-bacteria-t116130 https://jb.asm.org/content/192/19/5002


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