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TIL the saying "Drink the Kool-Aid" comes from a cult mass-suicide of 900 in Guyana in 1978 where the cultists drank it laced with cyanide. I also learned the drink was NOT Kool-Aid. It was actually poisoned Flavor Aid.

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