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TIL there was a popular cocktail in the Wild West called "Tarantula Juice" made from wood alcohol, rosin, tobacco oil, sulfuric acid, hydrogen cyanide, and strychnine. It had effects similar to meth and produced muscle spasms that felt like having dozens of baby tarantulas crawling on your skin

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