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NEW YORK — Imagine waiting in long lines to smell something that resembles a rotten corpse.
In New York, that's exactly what's happening.
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the rare Amorphophallus gigas — a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower — has bloomed for the first time since arriving at the garden in 2018.
The Jan. 24 bloom was expected to only last a few days and then not happen again for possibly several years.
Some who braved the cold to get a glimpse and a sniff of the flower have described the noxious smell as similar to "stinky cheese," and even poop.
The Associated Press reports similar scenes in Australia where a corpse flower bloomed for the first time in 15 years at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden, prompting thousands to stand in lines up to three hours long to get a whiff.
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Human-powered Ferris wheel
Maybe Steel Days, the Washington County Fair, or the Farmington Festival Days Carnival could get one of these human-powered Ferris wheels for next year.
