There are over 250,000 deaths a year due to medical error.

Fir trees can grow in human lungs

Botflies are a type of insect whose larvae burrow under your skin.

Horned toads can squirt blood out of their eyes.

Peanut butter can contain rat hairs

A chicken named Mike once lived for 8 weeks after his head was cut off.

A group of crows is called a murder.

There’s no way to get rid of all the creatures that might hitch a ride along the food processing chain, the FDA has established standards to keep food defects to a minimum.

The coffee beans you grind for breakfast are allowed by the FDA to have an average of 10 milligrams or more animal poop per pound. As much as 4% to 6% of beans by count are also allowed to be insect-infested or moldy.

peanut butter is one of the most controlled foods in the FDA list; an average of one or more rodent hairs and 30 (or so) insect fragments are allowed for every 100 grams, which is 3.5 ounces.

Golden raisins are allowed to contain 35 fruit fly eggs as well as 10 or more whole insects (or their equivalent heads and legs) for every 8 ounces. Kid-sized containers of raisins are an ounce each. That’s more than 4 eggs and a whole insect in each box.

for every 4 oz. can of mushrooms there can be an average of 20 or more maggots of any size.

Paprika can have up to 20% mold, about 75 insect parts and 11 rodent hairs for every 25 grams (just under an ounce). A typical spice jar holds about 2 to 3 oz