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25 Aug

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Weird Fact: Nutmeg is poisonous

Nutmeg is a hallucinigenic drug which is regularly used to flavor such lovely things as custard tarts and fruit cakes. It is also a poison which will kill you while you suffer a variety of extremely revolting (and one or two not-so-revolting) side-effects on the way. Ingesting 2 grams of nutmeg will give you similar feelings to having taken amphetamines (the not-so-revolting side-effect) but will also cause nausea, fever, and headaches. Ingesting 7.5 grams will cause convulsions, and eating 10 grams will cause hallucinations. Eating a whole nutmeg can lead to “nutmeg psychosis” which includes feelings of impending doom, confusion, and agitation. There have been two recorded cases of death by nutmeg (one in 1908 and one in 2001).

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  From the CT Wiki, “The origins of the nutmeg connection to Connecticut are unknown. It may have come from its sailors...
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  feelings of impending doom, confusion, and agitation? someone must be feeding me 10 grams of nutmeg every night while i...
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  Dear jesus why is this legal?!
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  No way! How come we don’t get sick from eating it?
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