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TIL of Pájaro Verde, a toxic moonshine beverage concocted in Chilean prisons with the ingredients consisting of sugar, rice, rotted fruits and also includes things such as turpentine, paint thinners and paint. There have been cases of prisoners mixing their feces in it to aid in fermentation.

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