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- An Australian university library was evacuated on Saturday over a suspected gas leak that turned out to be the smell of a rotting durian.
- 500 people were evacuated after the pungent smell traveled through the air-conditioning system.
- Durian is the world’s smelliest fruit and is banned in taxis and hotels throughout Asia.
An Australian university library was evacuated after a rotting fruit was mistaken for a gas leak.
Firefighters arrived at the campus of RMIT in downtown Melbourne around 3 p.m. on Saturday after receiving a call about a suspected gas leak. As a precautionary measure, police evacuated approximately 500 students and teachers.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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