‘Tis the season for these powerful things. Turns out sneezes can travel up to 8 m, coughs up to 6m and they can linger in the air for up to 10 minutes.

All the more important to make sure you’re doing your Dracula sneeze into your sleeve.

Sneezes and coughs

Sneezing into your sleeve helps prevent the spread of cold and flu germs.

Dracula sneeze

Apparently it’s called the photic sneeze. I asked the question of Focus magazine in the UK and it seemed to me that Science doesn’t really know why. We need to find out.

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