The Nocebo Effect

The fam­il­ies of the cursed often felt there was no point wast­ing food on the “walk­ing dead”, for example. That’s why many of the cursed would die: simple star­va­tion. Enter: the “nocebo effect”.

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The Cost Of A Coke

Here’s an inter­est­ing fact:
The con­cen­trate for 70 per­cent of Coca-Cola’s 1.5 bil­lion drinks served each day ori­gin­ates in the tax haven of Ireland, where enough con­cen­trate for 50,000 Cokes costs $2.60—including labor. The concentrate’s main ingredi­ent? Caramel.

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