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7 Random Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before

There is an island in the Bahamas inhabited only by swimming pigs! Getty Images / Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed Conversations are hard. Each week, two-time Jeopardy!  winner  and awkward silence warrior Terri Pous makes small talk a little easier by giving you random things to blurt out when you don’t know what else to say. Catch up on last week's here. 1.   A can of Mountain Dew can dissolve a mouse 😳. Getty Images / Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed Apparently, citric acid, which Mountain Dew contains in large quantities, can easily erode teeth and bones in as short as a few months. Welcome to your nightmares! This all came to light in a 2012 lawsuit filed by a man who claimed to have found a whole mouse carcass in his friendly afternoon can of 'Dew. Pepsi, Mountain Dew's parent company, hired experts who discounted the man's case by finding that the neon green soda would reduce the rodent to "a jelly-like substance." The

26 Facts That Will Ruin Your Day

1.   The FDA allows an average of one rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter manufactured. Carlosgaw / Getty Images, Cynoclub / Getty Images The same amount of peanut butter can have no more than 30 "insect fragments". 2.   Jelly beans are so shiny because they're coated with shellac, which is made from insect poop. Brianajackson / Getty Images 3.   Perfume musk came from a sack in front of a deer's dick. Ipggutenbergukltd / Getty Images Used as a base for most perfumes, musk was originally found in a small sack in front of the musk deer's penis. Nowadays they  mostly  use synthetic stuff. 4.   Natural flavouring substitutes came from a gland right next to a beaver's anus. Anna39 / Getty Images Castoreum is a brown sludge secreted from a beaver's castor gland, right near it's asshole. The sludge was commonly used, and FDA approved, as a vanilla, raspberry, and