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TIL: A 2020 study revealed that one's taste is connected with their ethnicity and gender. Asians experience taste more intensely due to being more likely to be "supertasters" having the compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) and being thermal tasters. Caucasians are much less sensitive in comparison.

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