It might be time to scrap the 5-second rule
Oops. If your family has lived, or at least survived, by the 5-second rule, researchers at San Diego State University say you may be living on borrowed time. You know the rule: If food falls to the floor and you grab it back within 5 seconds, you can still eat it. Without, you know, dying.
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