Back in September, the city of Milwaukee announced that it would be spreading cheese brine on its streets this winter in a pilot program to see whether the salty liquid could reduce the amount of rock salt necessary to de-ice roads. Now, it looks like the plan is working out well. In fact, there's not even a smell to the streets.
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Dec 27, 2013
The cheesy streets of Milwaukee
The DNA in his semen was completely replaced with another man's DNA
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