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TIL the hottest hot sauce in the world is “mad dog 357”, it clocks in at 9 million on the scoville hotness unit scale. For comparison, pepper spray clocks in at around 5.3 million scovilles. Oh and it comes in solid form and literally needs to be heated to 140°F to be even used

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