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TIL there is a common amoeba found in warm bodies of freshwater, and if insufflated (snorted) deeply into your sinus cavity, will begin to eat your optical nerve, move to your brain and eat that as well. Oh, and it has a fatality rate higher then the Ebola virus and the Bubonic plague.

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