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TIL in 2001, the managing director of Aston Manor, Britain’s 3rd-biggest cidery, plotted to contaminate the market leader, Bulmer’s, with yeast that would cause vomiting. The employee paid to introduce the yeast reported him to the police, and he was jailed for 18 months

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