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TIL Cuba suffered a mysterious blindness epidemic which baffled their doctors, in the 90s. A US doctor found it was in part due to bad diet & vitamin deficiency. Then, meeting a sufferer who admitted to drinking moonshine, he realised it was also due to alcohol contaminated with methanol

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