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Eventually, Dr. Hocker said, additional DNA testing will provide intimate details about the crew found on the Vasa, down to whether they had freckles or wet or dry earwax.

A few years later, The Takeout referred to it as "Satan's earwax."

A key limitation of apps and online tests is that they can’t rule out potentially reversible causes of hearing loss, such as excess earwax, the way an audiologist would during an in-person test.

“I found out about this a day and a half ago. I wish I knew earlier, I would have brought earwax.”

Back before commercial whaling was widely outlawed, plugs of earwax were frequently collected from whale carcasses and stored in archives.