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TIL that the people of Ringaskiddy, Ireland have claimed for decades that fumes from a nearby Pfizer factory producing Viagra causes a "Pfizer riser" in both men and dogs. The pharmaceutical has said that this is nothing more than an "amusing" local myth.

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