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TIL that chocolate as we know it may run out in 2020 due to worldwide shortage of cocoa

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mxWaM TIL that, whilst botulism affects 200 Americans every year, Avian botulism kills vast swathes of birds, with single outbreaks killing ca. 50,000 birds and several outbreaks occurring per year
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