OddCambodia uses ‘life-saving’ rats to sniff out deadly landmines by Reuters: Oddly Enough • July 13, 2015 SIEM REAP, Cambodia (Reuters) - Pit, only two and with just one eye, needed only 11 minutes before he detected a deadly mine buried in a Cambodian field, work that humans with metal detectors could have taken up to five days to investigate.