What If You Jumped Into a Pool Filled With Human Saliva?

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Why do we find other people's saliva so gross? We each produce about two bathtubs of the stuff every year, so why do we freak out when even a drop of someone else's saliva comes near us? Getting the odd splash of saliva from a "spitty talker" isn't going to kill you, but what if you were submerged in a large volume of it? What kind of dangers would you be exposed to?

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