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One of the world's biggest flowers smells like rotting meat, on purpose.

The titan arum gives off a stench like rotting flesh to attract the carrion beetles and flies that pollinate it. Its giant bloom is rare and lasts only a day or two.

Source: Wikipedia: Amorphophallus titanum

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